123 Quotes About Earthquakes

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

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?

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

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

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

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

With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.