Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Morgan

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

Kapil Sibal

India surely needs to network with the rest of the global earthquake community. It needs to re-think on all old issues.

It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine.

In an earthquake, the motion is at surface, ... Back in '92 there was a 5.6 or 5.7 earthquake not far from Yucca, and there were scientists in a tunnel near the epicenter and they didn't even know an earthquake happened.

Arthur Miller

He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Silvan Shalom

This is an earthquake which has taken us back 50 years and will lead to an upheaval.

This is an earthquake in the Middle East. It's hard to see any negotiations now between anybody.

They're not over. For a shallow-depth earthquake like this they go on, sometimes for a year.

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Gary Hamel

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

I'm 81. and never in my lifetime have I known of, read of, heard of an earthquake of that instensity before,

Todd Akin

My base will show up in earthquakes.

John Muir

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

John Muir

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

John Wesley

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

Jon Porter

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

Christine Gregoire

These are our levees. And the earthquake is our hurricane.

Epicurus

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

Peter Tosh

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

Peter Kreeft

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Phil Donahue

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Helen Hunt

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

You could imagine if there was an earthquake in Utah in winter and everyone ran outside and turned off their gas. By the time we could get around to relighting everyone, it would be a problem, because people would have no heat until we got there.

Sheila Ballantyne

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

Jon Scieszka

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

Moss Hart

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

Lynda Obst

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

Lord Byron

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Sonny Bono

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

Stephen Covey

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.