Quotes of: Earthquakes Keyword

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Bill Gates

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

Helen Hunt

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

Joe Morgan

[hearing a rumbling noise within the Mountain] Dori: Was that an earthquake? Balin: That, my lad, was a dragon.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Ben Bernanke

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

Ban Ki-moon

Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't.

Myth Conceptions

In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.

Marcus Samuelsson

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Josiah Strong

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

Ashley Scott

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Lord Byron

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

Charles Francis Richter

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Charles Francis Richter

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Aristotle

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

Bill Condon

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

Keith Moon

When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening.

Misha Collins

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

Mehmet Murat ildan

An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush.

Mitt Romney

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

Marcus Samuelsson