#earthquake

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bridges #buildings #care #chaotic #collapsing

It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#comets #cruel-colors #earthquakes #garden #night

I am the earthquake of love. How you feel is my fault. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fault #love #age

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

— Phil Donahue

#doctor #earthquake #first #honor #like

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#alive #course #died #earthquake #francisco

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#always #anywhere #because #been #being

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#earthquake #like #plague #prosperity #war

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#earthquakes #had #heard #how #i

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved. ↗

— John Breaux

#earthquake #fault #francisco #lies #moved

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#earthquake #out #starts #story #up