Earthshaking Quotes

#1. Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.

Zicheng Hong

#2. We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Mark V. Hurd

#3. Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

Nguyen Quyen

#4. I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom.

Billy Graham

#5. Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.

Nostradamus

#6. People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.

Jeanne Phillips

#7. I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

John Hughes

#8. I was miserable as a kid.

Maurice Sendak

#9. You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

Dick Cavett

#10. I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

Marion Cotillard

#11. Life on the planet is being homogenized by the expanding human population and the frequent and rapid movement of people and goods, which carry invasive organisms with them. These invasives often flourish in their new ecosystems because, like the woolly adelgid, they have escaped their predators.

Richard Preston

#12. Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Carol Alt

#13. For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

Evan Davis

#14. I did this film with Russell Crowe called 'The Water Diviner,' which took place just after WWI. It was fascinating because the weapons between WWI and WII were very different. I had to learn how to ride horses in a battle setting. It was important that we rode a certain way.

Jai Courtney

#15. The impulse to lie, to continue to wallow in secrets as he had for years, was only the faintest whisper now, a nagging sense of stepping too far on an uncharted path, easily overridden by need to tell her. If he couldn't tell her, at least he could find some comfort in confidence.

Anthony Ryan

#16. I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

John Cameron

#17. I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don't get slimy at night because they're drunk, they get slimy because they're already slimy to begin with. I

Banana Yoshimoto

#18. Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

#19. My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves

Christopher Poindexter

#20. There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

Jerry Hall