Tornadoes Quotes

• There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Positive, Gratitude, Pain

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

  Michael Koryta

  Randomness, Feels, Stills

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• Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

  Spencer Bachus

  Powerful, Technology, Giving

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• Seasons are like life. Some seasons are better than others. Some have more sun and rainbows. Others have storms and tornadoes. Some have both. You have to accept that, and bring colour and light to the season you're in as best you can, and always look forward to the next season.

  Cathy Lamb

  Light, Rainbow, Storm

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• How is a redneck divorce similar to a tornado?
  You know that somewhere, somehow, someone is gonna lose a trailer.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Divorce, Redneck, Trailers

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• Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fear, Real, Believe

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• My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

  Edie Brickell

  Grandmother, Kitchen, Looks

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• In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

  Spencer Bachus

  Block, Government, Community

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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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• The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Wind, Challenges, Trying

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

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• I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

  Werner Herzog

  Sweet, Blow, Ideas

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• I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

  Chris Paul

  Oklahoma City, Cities, Clue

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• It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

  Edward Dahlberg

  People, Imagination, Criticism

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

  Rob Thomas

  Life, Moving, Blow

  Rob Thomas (2007). “Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Parks, Funny Redneck, Trailers

  "FIctional character: Mater (voice)". "Cars" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Eye, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

  Susan Piver

  Fear, Eye, Focus

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• Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wine, Two

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• It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

  Kim Basinger

  Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Fields

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• The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

  Reynolds Price

  Destructive

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• I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Long, Kites, Strings

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.691, Dell

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• There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.

  Paul Westerberg

  Feet, Snow, Four

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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, Hurricanes

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• Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

  Merlin Mann

  Cold, Good Work, Disregard

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