Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

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.

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Edgar Cayce

If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

Demetri Martin

Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.

Bill Maher

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

Biz Stone

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

Bill Gates

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Charles Kuralt

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Alan Rickman

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Alan Moore

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Greenspan

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Akshay Kumar

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

Chris Cooper

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Chris Brown

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Chris Abani

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edith Sitwell

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Diane Ackerman

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

William Shakespeare

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.