Richter Scale Quotes

#1. Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. Death is sad, but to those closest to the deceased it is greater than that, it is a catastrophe, an off-the-Richter-scale, ground-shaking earthquake, a gale force fuck hurricane, a three-story-high rolling tsunami that knocks you flat, sweeps you away and strips you bare.

Anonymous

#3. I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.

Charles Francis Richter

#4. She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

Dakota Cassidy

#5. On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten.

Robert Harris

#6. If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#7. In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

John Lyall

#8. I didn't deserve to be president just based on the Richter scale of 'Was I tough enough and did I understand the process?'

Joe Biden

#9. His mouth came down on mine and the belly flutter broke the Richter scale.

Kristen Ashley

#10. Well, the Taco Bell burrito scale of immense magnitude returned an 'r' factor of point eight six. Then when I applied the nose-picking coefficient, I discovered a multivariate numeration of nine dot oh sixteen on the Richter scale.

Debra Dunbar

#11. Luce. We fight. I'm used to that. Sure, that fight was the scariest ass one we've ever had, but you're here now. That's all that matters. No matter how many fights we have, or how much they tip the Richter scale, none of it matters as long as at the end of the day, you're still with me.

Nicole Williams

#12. On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

George Strait

#13. THE RICHTER SCALE, WHICH has technically been replaced by the "moment magnitude"1 scale, measures the energy released by an earthquake.

Randall Munroe

#14. My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

Les Dawson

#15. In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it
three minutes; to collect the data in it
all my life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

#17. What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Charles Francis Richter

#18. That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

Tony Curtis

#19. Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Charles Francis Richter

#20. I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

Tom Colicchio

#21. Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

Madame De Stael

#22. If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

Ann Voskamp

#23. I played golf all over Detroit.

Smokey Robinson

#24. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Carla H. Krueger

#25. Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Charles Francis Richter

#26. My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Rosa Parks

#27. 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.'

Charles Francis Richter

#28. I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

Charles Francis Richter

#29. I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

Abby Wambach