I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.
Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
