Quotes tagged ‘Earthquake’

“Dori: Was that an earthquake? Balin: That, my lad, was a dragon.”

— Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro, Dori, Mark Hadlow, imdb.com

“From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, 'I am man,' our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall asc…”

— Mel Brooks, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Gene Wilder, imdb.com

“Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn’t ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, ‘A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake’ feeling sure I was going to learn somet…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people.”

— George Kennedy, imdb.com

“What do you call a cow during an earthquake? A milkshake.”

— BookerGinger, reddit.com

“I felt no earth shaking during the Oklahoma earthquake tonight. Ummmm, not much different then my sex life.”

— BettyFNCrocker, twitter.com