1755 Earthquake Quotes

#1. So what have you guys been up to?"
"Nothing, worshipping Satan.

Daniel Clowes

#2. There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

Lucy Powell

#3. I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.

Barry Tyrrell

#4. Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#5. I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

Burgess Meredith

#6. In 1755 one of the worst natural disasters of the eighteenth century occurred: the Lisbon earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people. This Portuguese city was devastated not just by the earthquake, but also by the tsunami that followed, and then by fires that raged for days.

Nigel Warburton

#7. The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

John Quincy Adams

#8. I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Laurie Anderson

#9. Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

Doug E. Fresh