Earthquake Quotes

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It was one of the spookiest jobs I`ve ever had, but Alcatraz was not the problem. Most of the film was done in L.A. I`m in this four-by-six cell--wet, naked, covered in shit, live bugs in my hair, live rats chewing on my leg, Chained to the walls for a lot of it. Being beaten by Gary Oldman; of course, I can`t think of anyone I would rather be beaten by. One day, it was four-thirty on a Monday morning, we`d been working all night, and the ground started shaking. We were right near the epicenter. It was a horrible experience. Here I was, naked, shackled in this cell, and just every day playing some new level of agony. It was the closest I`d ever come to losing it. I`d cry on the way to work. (On filming Murder in the First during the 1994 Northridge earthquake)

- Kevin Bacon

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

- Sylvester Stallone

I have been to New Orleans many times, I know the city. What`s happened is so incredibly huge. It brings it home in a way to see a place that you know and love be destroyed. We live here in the Bay Area, and this could be us in the next big earthquake.

- Matthew Davis

In an earthquake, I shouldn`t run out of the house - I should run into it.

- Tony Danza

The terrible effects of the earthquake, and the human tragedy that has resulted, have resulted in a major international assistance effort and I am confident that our responsive and valuable assets will contribute a great deal to that relief effort,

- John Reid

If you close your eyes and imagine an earthquake happened instead of Katrina, the image would be the same: collapsed buildings, no running water or electricity, displaced citizens, and vast devastation

- Larry Klein

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

- Conrad Veidt

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

- Phil Donahue

We are praying we don`t have an earthquake, ... This is money we`ve committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

- Tom Hardy

We are seeing continued growth in precision civilian applications such surveying, precision agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, geodesy, as well as volcano and earthquake research. More specifically at the Department of Transportation where I work, we are expanding our applications across the entire U.S. transportation infrastructure,

- Michael Shaw

We are seeing continued growth in precision civilian applications such surveying, precision agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, geodesy, as well as volcano and earthquake research. More specifically at the Department of Transportation where I work, we are expanding our applications across the entire U.S. transportation infrastructure,

- Michael Shaw

San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires

- Dennis Smith

You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It`s feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn`t getting hit with lightning today, it`s an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you`re ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

- Jeff Melvoin

You could imagine if there was an earthquake in Utah in winter and everyone ran outside and turned off their gas. By the time we could get around to relighting everyone, it would be a problem, because people would have no heat until we got there.

- Steve Chapman

In an earthquake, a lot of people assume that regardless of whether or not there`s any damage to their home, they need to shut off their gas. They assume there`s going to be a gas leak.

- Steve Chapman

Salem is lucky because we don`t have any significant high rises. Low-rise buildings seem to fair better. We seem to have lots of single- and two-story buildings, which all fare well. Most of the structures in the city are framed with wood, which seem resistant in the event of an earthquake. Older, steel buildings tend to fall apart quicker. Wood is flexible. Salem would probably fare very well, other than the downtown area.

- Tom Phillips

The older people who lived through the 1964 earthquake are more aware.

- Jennifer Austin

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

(Poetry) is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

- Lord Byron

BYU is probably one of the most progressive forces in Utah County for earthquake preparedness. I`m not concerned as much about the buildings on BYU campus as I am about the buildings most of the BYU students live in.

- Ron Harris

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

- Amos Oz

It`s a friendly earthquake. It`s a very good reminder to people in this region that we live in earthquake country. Some of the world`s biggest earthquakes have occurred here.

- John Cassidy

Because we do have recordings on the ground, it likely was a blast or a very tiny earthquake.

- John Cassidy

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we`re in India, we`ve decided that we`re going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

- Katie Cook

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

- Achille Forler

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we`ll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won`t necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

- Albro Lundy III

We don`t suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

- Alicia Munnell

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

- Allan Meltzer

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.

- Alle Fister

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

- Aluf Ben

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.

- Andrew Leventis

There was an earthquake someplace? ... What earthquake?

- Andy Hansen

were in Japan the year before, and he had always had (sic) hoped there would be an earthquake that he could feel, and there wasn`t any. And here was the big Long Beach earthquake, and they didn`t feel it!

- Andy Hansen

As the dot-com economy collapsed and the Nisqually earthquake occurred, it became clear to people that projects of that scale were not realistic.

- Ann F. Lewis

I`m 81. and never in my lifetime have I known of, read of, heard of an earthquake of that instensity before,

- Aric Fromdahl

Hector Mine was a dream earthquake. All the fun of a magnitude 7 without any of the guilt.

- Ashley McElhiney

It scared the crap out of me. I have never felt anything like it before. Well, yes I have, the 1994 Northridge earthquake (in California). It felt just like that.

- Barbara Bonfiglio

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.

- Barbara Echeverria

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906,

- Barbara Echeverria

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

- Jeannette Rankin

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

- Frederick Douglass

(when asked about his favorite movie that he has filmed) That`s really hard because I`ve really liked each of them for a different reason. All around, probably Zathura. That was awesome because of all the stunts and cool ways that they filmed it. They used 3 different sets. One shook like a 9.2 earthquake, one tilted at a 45 degree angle, and the other was still. Also, it was all in the same place so once we got there, we got to do cool stuff with the trailer for Halloween and Christmas and stuff like that. It was a lot of fun

- Josh Hutcherson