Flash Floods Quotes:

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

- Peter Watts

source: Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

topic: Self, Brain, Doe, Flash Floods

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Mean, Writing, Earthquakes, Disease And Death, Cactus

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Book, Numbers, Gone, Flash Floods

The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

- Tom Robbins

source: Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.226, Bantam

topic: Cheating, Winning, Games, Eruption, Pinball

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

- Elizabeth Kostova

topic: Together, Remember, Topsoil, Flash Floods

A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.

- Neal A. Maxwell

source: "Notwithstanding My Weakness". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, pg. 7, 1981.

topic: Spring, Flower, Agriculture, Nurturing, Irrigation

Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming! Party On! A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead! Party On! My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river! Party On!

- Cody Lundin

source: Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Party, Rivers, Survival, Storms Coming, Swept Away