(72 quotes found)
“In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.”
Jack Handy
“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. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse tomove after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them torelocate? Their house have wheels.”
Carlos Mencia
“I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar."”
“In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only reason I learned that we had a tornado was because a friend warned me.”
Cesar Aguilar
“For all the tornadoes Arkansas has, and the ones that have hit around Little Rock, we never had one just basically come down Main Street,”
Chelsea Clinton
“People were just not watching for tornado-type activity, and it caught a lot of people off-guard. We're lucky we didn't have more injuries than we did.”
Cecil Whaley
“Through our experience with the tornadoes, we became a model of how a community should reach out to its own,”
Charles Farmer
“We're just trying to fine-tune it. The bottom line is, we're trying to rate tornadoes more consistently and more accurately.”
Chance Hayes
