Typhoons Quotes

• Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.

  Álvaro Mutis

  Memories, Years, Substance

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• Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted... an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest.

  William Dampier

  Clouds, Color, Wind

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• The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

  Pearl S. Buck

  Self, Sea, Weather

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• Crecí en Filipinas y no creo que haya ningún problema con el tifón. Es normal para nosotros.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Thinking, Philippines, Normal

  Entrevista con Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. 13 de noviembre de 2009.

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• One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

  Jay Asher

  Years, Fifteen, Littles

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.  Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Loss, People

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• And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Weather, Events

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Era como si estuviera dentro de una pecera en medio de un tifón, y todos los demás estuvieran fuera disfrutando del buen tiempo.

  P. C. Cast

  Weather, Lovely, Middle

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). "Serie La casa de la noche", p.328, Macmillan.

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• Aquí, en el Pacífico, hay tifones y huracanes que soplan a más de 200 millas por hora. En casa tenemos tornados y huracanes, pero no me preocupan. La hipoteca de mi casa es tan pesada que nada podría hacerla ceder.

  Bob Hope

  Home, Blow, Worry

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• Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-made—the panic, the violence that would ensue. That’s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?” Erskine interlocked his fingers. “We come together. We put the pieces back. But a terrorist’s bomb.” He frowned. “A terrorist’s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.” He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. “When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we must destroy him.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Epidemics, Discovery

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• My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

  Hildegard Knef

  Fire, Actors, Revolution

  HILDEGARD KNEF (1971). “THE GIFT HORSE”

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• Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Eye, Garden, Grieving

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.365, A&C Black

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• Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

  GZA

  Impact, Hip Hop, Black

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• Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. A typhoon couldn't blow that thing off their heads. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.

  Tim Allen

  Blow, Drunk, Soldier

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• He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

  Julio Verne

  World, Moments, Destination

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• I can generate suctional forces, which act indirectly and are entirely undetectable. No current of air can be noticed; only an almost imperceptible cooling, as occurs when air is sucked in strongly with the back of the hand held in front of the mouth. It is therefore incorrect to say that I have copied the cyclones and typhoons of the tropics.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Air, Hands, Cyclones

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.192, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

  Julio Verne

  Programmes, Ifs

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)”, p.138, Jules Verne

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• To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes...that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming.

  Stanley B. Goldenberg

  Believe, Impact, Weather

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• You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.

  David Titley

  Government, People, Chinese

  "'La guerra del cambio climático' no es una metáfora". Entrevista con Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. 18 de abril de 2014.

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• In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Dog, Years, Whales

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• Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.

  Yaser Arafat

  Reality, Volcanoes, Departure

  Fuente: www.nybooks.com

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• La gente sólo me llama "Fiery" porque rima con Fred, igual que "Typhoon" rima con Tyson.

  Fred Trueman

  People, Tyson, Rhyme

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• En el vientre del horno de la creatividad hay un fuego sexual; las llamas se enroscan entre sí con miedo y deleite. La vida de este planeta tiene el mismo aspecto, pero a un ritmo más lento y frío. Las enormes espirales de los tifones, las vueltas y revueltas de las cadenas montañosas y los desfiladeros, las olas y las profundas corrientes oceánicas: un retorcimiento como el de un dragón.

  Gary Snyder

  Vida, Océano, Creatividad

  Gary Snyder (2008). "Un lugar en el espacio: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds", Counterpoint Press

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• Apuesto a que te mojo como huracanes y tifones, tengo bufones comiéndome el coño mientras veo dibujos animados.

  Lil' Kim

  Art, Media, Pussy

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