Tornadoes Quotes - Page 3

• I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Female, Photographer

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• This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

  Lizz Winstead

  Stupid, Oklahoma, Target

  "‘Daily Show’ co-creator Lizz Winstead sparks outrage with Oklahoma tornado joke about conservatives". www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2013.

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• I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.

  Thomas Schelling

  Years, People, Wish

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• I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

  Melanie Brown

  Christmas, Eight, West Indies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.

  Herman Melville

  Land, Sky, Nurse

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.555, Velvet Element Books

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• You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than times describing the sound of a tornado.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Sound, Might

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• I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption.  But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation.  It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.

  Pat Robertson

  Hate, Pride, Gay

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1998. Two months after Robertson's warning, Hurricane Bonnie detoured around Orlando but slammed into Robertson's own headquarters city, Virginia Beach, Va.

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• It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.

  Jamie McMurray

  Home, Past, People

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.”  But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Earthquakes, Fire

  David Suzuki (2014). “The David Suzuki Reader, 2nd Edition: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker”, p.55, Greystone Books Ltd

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• A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

  Fred Hoyle

  Blow, Yards, Pieces

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Curves, Insecurity

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• I like cottage cheese. That's why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Tent cheese? Mobile home cheese? Do not eat mobile home cheese in a tornado.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.

  Ian Stewart

  Butterfly, Wings, Atmosphere

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• Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don't worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.

  Bob Hope

  Home, Blow, Worry

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• I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we can be to each other and to other species, we've got nothing on tsunamis, hurricanes or tornadoes.

  Eden Robinson

  Thinking, Transition, Upheaval

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Six, Thrillers

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• Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.

  Marie Lu

  Mom, Boys, Pet

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.45, Penguin

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• It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock.
  Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado.

  Lane Frost

  Rocks, Careers, Riding

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• My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Art, Ideas

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• In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, California, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.

  Henry Mitchell

  Nature, Pride, Garden

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press

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• You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.

  Justin Halpern

  Bullshit, House, Right Now

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• My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.

  Kate Christensen

  Sunshine, Color, Weather

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• But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

  Lorrie Moore

  Weather, Vortex, Might

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.146, Vintage

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