Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Allen

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

Shaukat Sultan

It is a national tragedy. This is the worst earthquake in recent times.

Michael Vaughan

It is important, with winter approaching, that the plight of those needing blankets and tents in the earthquake zone is not forgotten,

Gloria Reuben

I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

Dr. Glass

I think of it as the earthquake in San Francisco. You know it's on the fault. You know it's going to occur, but you can't tell if it's going to occur this year or next year or the year after.

Stephen Becker

I think of it as an opportunity to talk about the earthquake using visual materials in a different way.

Dan Toole

We may be six months on from the earthquake and through a mercifully mild winter, but there is still the monsoon to come and the next winter is only seven months away.

Alan Lightman

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

Barbara Kingsolver

Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Gary Sheffield

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Seth Shostak

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

Robert Waters

I guess I'll just have to stop more frequently to get fuel little by little.

Bob Edwards

The people that show up here are wanting a job, they are wanting to get back into society. The problem is that society hasn't frequently let them back in.

David A. Bednar

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Clint Eastwood

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Charles Francis Richter

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Kathy Stephens

I think people are just now realizing the magnitude of where we are.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Lynn Schusterman

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

Joe Burke

We don't completely understand the rationale for the magnitude of the downgrade.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Wayne Bennett

Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened, ... It's unprecedented.

David Vallee

It's rare to have a system of that magnitude back up.

Patrick Ho

I'm not surprised that there is a sell-off but I'm a little surprised at the magnitude of the sell-off.

Arthur Miller

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has

Sergei Fedorov

I can't really predict anything. I'd like to think day-to-day.

Dick Jauron

I don't think it makes any sense for me to predict where anything's going. We all know things are not predictable.

Irwin Redlener

I wouldn't be too quick to predict how this is going to turn out,

Martin Freeman

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

Denis Villeneuve

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Elizabeth Banks

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.

Anatoly Chubais

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

Guy Caruso

We're not predicting that we're just saying that's possible.