#earthquake

If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great. ↗

— Elena Vesnina

#day #earthquake #feels #great #i

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

#academy #academy award #actually #award #could

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

#comes #direct #earthquakes #fifty #gay

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#i #nude #sleep #until #used

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ↗

— Jeannette Rankin

#earthquake #more #than #win #you

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #conflict #control #droughts #earthquakes

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

#became #bizarre #broke #dad #disoriented

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#advanced technology #after #allowing #architecture #buildings

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

#earth #earthquake #europe #fixed #great