123 Quotes About Earthquakes

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

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

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

All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

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.

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

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