Top 7 Maelstrom Quotes - Quoted Daily

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

Literature, Maelstrom, Centre

Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

Zachary Quinto

Voice, Maelstrom, Matter

"Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies" by David Rooney, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2010.

A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

People, Bells, Maelstrom

"Clearing Up Some Misconceptions". "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2", www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

Thomas Nagel

Passion, World, Maelstrom

Thomas Nagel (2010). “Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008”, p.34, Oxford University Press

There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.

William Faulkner

Reality, Rocks, Maelstrom

William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

David M. Raup

Gossip, Television, Maelstrom