Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops:… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchants, psychos, ghouls. They could smell a funeral… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands… — Heinrich von Kleist Copy Share Image
We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You may not be able to predict the time of a tornado, earthquake or the Lord's return. But you can know for… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
