#earthquake

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

— Phil Donahue

#doctor #earthquake #first #honor #like

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#always #anywhere #because #been #being

If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great. ↗

— Elena Vesnina

#day #earthquake #feels #great #i

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#academy #academy award #actually #award #could

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those. ↗

— Bill Condon

#comes #direct #earthquakes #fifty #gay

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#i #nude #sleep #until #used

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#earthquake #else #even #francisco #help

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. ↗

— David Suzuki

#earth #earthquakes #gas #high #into

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#am #behalf #community #culinary #earthquake