Hurricanes Quotes - Page 2

• You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

  Neil Young

  Song, Eye, Calm

  Neil Young (2010). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook): Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab”, p.28, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

  Ellen Tauscher

  High Heels, Together, Damage

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• Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Fate, Dark, Sunshine

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• Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

  Charles Rangel

  Strikes, Harder, Caribbean

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• I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Ocean, Thinking

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

  John Lennon

  Music, Eye, Thinking

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• Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Flying, Storm, Tornadoes

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• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Mark Foley

  Office, Energy, Cost

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• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Latin, Earthquakes, Numbers

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• Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

  Mickey Spillane

  Past, Smell, House

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• Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos

  Donella Meadows

  Party, Wings, Oil

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• Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

  Michael Fish

  Reports

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• The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

  Jim Ramstad

  Compassion, People, Relief

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• Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.

  Kerry Emanuel

  Years, People, Lasts

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• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, Loss, Aggravation

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• Every day is something new. It's kind of like Hurricane Katrina. Some days I'm recording or going shopping or having a group orgy. Maybe today I'll go to Louis Vuitton and have sex with a straight guy. I have to balance my time.

  Jeffree Star

  Sex, Shopping, Guy

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fire, Bird

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• Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

  Michael Fish

  Worry, Today, Way

  Evening weather broadcast, BBC, October 15, 1987.

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• With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.

  Erma Bombeck

  Boys, Path, Where You Stand

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

  Denzel Washington

  Hate, Prison

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• HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, West Indies, Sea

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.147, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Love, Dream, Lying

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard, should create a Boeing.

  Fred Hoyle

  Our World, Junk, Yards

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• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  Edward Norton Lorenz

  Butterfly, Wings, Causes

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• Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

  Anderson Cooper

  Liars, Lying, Littles

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