The idea of an Earth Quake really shakes me up.

Tell me how can I let go of all the things that shouldn't even matter? But it really shakes and fuck me up inside…

— Anonymous

“No one sees how her hands shake as she closes the magazine, lays it down gingerly as though afraid that her trembling will start…

— Amy Zhang

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life…

— Stephen Russell

So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who…

— John Fante

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If…

— Joseph Cook

Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed.…

— Gaylene Preston

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who…

— Nikita Khrushchev

At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring…

— Martin Luther

The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the…

— Dave Barry

“She left our Gdańsk-Morena apartment with same haste as Tata, gone in a mad dash. She must have prepared for it , trained hard…

— Aga Maksimowska

The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs…

— Tom Robbins

“The Los Angeles earthquake of October 1,1987 measured 5.9 on the Richter scale. It killed eight people, injured scores more, and left 2,200 people…

— Ian Gittins

What was it like working with John Carmack on Quake? Like being strapped onto a rocket during takeoff – in the middle of a hurricane.

— Michael Abrash

If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent…

— Brian Williams