Alarm Event

Famous quotes containing the words alarm and/or event:

“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)