Rita was not a normal storm.
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Rita is a storm to be taken seriously,
CARLOS ALVAREZ If Katrina never happened and Rita was the only storm coming, I think a lot of people would have sta...
DERRICK POPE Hurricane Katrina was epic. It was off the charts. We understand that. By comparison, Rita was just ...
LEE HOLBERT What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.
AGBELI AMEKO Had Hurricane Katrina not come through here, the Rita storm would be really the event of the decade ...
GIL JAMIESON Effective immediately ... officials are issuing a general resident evacuation for all residents livi...
IRENE TONER The thing I do not want to do is do anything that will hurt the citizens of Jefferson County or keep...
MARK VIATOR The focus now is appropriations. Then we need transition to economic development and then work-force...
MARK VIATOR The administration believes Texas is OK.
MARK VIATOR I have been to the Ninth Ward. There is debris in the Ninth Ward, but you don't have people. We say,...
MARK VIATOR We're asking them to send the money where the people are, not where the trash is.
MARK VIATOR We need some compassionate conservatism.
MARK VIATOR This is a team sport. We need as many people there as possible.
MARK VIATOR The greatest hindrance Southeast Texas has had is the administration, the president.
MARK VIATOR We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Without a major storm blowing through, I haven't seen them much stronger. I wouldn't call this norma...
JIM FURYK A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never ha...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was a major storm, but not for us locally.
BOB RENARD Diplomacy was not his high mark.
BARBARA HASKELL The industry weathered Katrina, but if Rita comes ashore as a Category 4 or 5 storm, it would cast d...
DONALD LIGHT These kids, over the last three years, have worked really hard. This is more for these kids than any...
MARK STORM Up to now we've played some teams where maybe you have to worry about one or two kids. You have to w...
MARK STORM There are normal people (in the sport) and crazy people. It's like chasing the storm. That's what's ...
DANNY KASS Until the storm hits and we get in to look at the damage, it's hard to tell how long this could last...
ERIC HAMILTON ...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte...
DAISY GOODWIN In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Let’s see . . . ah, yes, this is nice and cozy.”
It was a broom cupboard.
J.K. ROWLING No one was normal, not really.
RICHELLE MEAD [But the worst of Rita missed Houston and Galveston, and officials there were cautiously optimistic ...
BILL WHITE That was normal public opinion, ... He was not abnormal.
BRUCE TYLER Every cloud engenders not a storm
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If there is a medical need or a transportation need, we want to know before the storm, not after, .....
JOHN PEYTON I am not strange, I am just not normal.
SALVADOR DALí It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
DONNA MILLS The only time I've seen a problem with trying to find parking there was during Hurricane Rita.
JAG GILL Doing a fabulous job on Rita doesn't undo the fact that people perceive the first few days of Katrin...
CHARLES COOK Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so ...
DAVID MARKSON This was a fast-moving storm.
DAWN EISCHEN The preparation and planning that we put in place prior to the storm is paying off as we deploy reco...
KATHERINE GREENE So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my...
ANNE LAMOTT The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,
BOB BARTLETT There was a shortage of capacity before Katrina, which got worse, and which is now under threat from...
JUSTIN SMIRK This storm did not show any discrimination socio-economically. The water was everywhere.
ANNE MILLING It was almost like . . . a diabolical storm.
KERRY EMANUEL It's not a storm, it's a cleansing
LINDA MENELAS Rita went right smack over Port Arthur. Our facilities were down, and it affected our suppliers and ...
DON OLSEN The storm had not hit yet, but we had expected to come back after it went through,
WARREN WILLIAMS I don't want to give you the wrong impression - it's not like it was before the storm. But we're sta...
CHRIS BONURA We're on the weaker, west side of the storm, Ophelia is not going to be a Katrina, even if it turns ...
JASON KADAH It was unusual, but not unheard of. This was not a 100-year storm or even a 50. It was more like a 2...
STEVE FRANCIS We are not making any assumptions in this storm. We are asking questions.
DAVID PAULISON Even without Rita the whole idea of having a master plan was to give us a blueprint for where we go.
MARK MCMURRY You're not lost in the storm, Marilyn. You are the storm.
COLIN CLARK “Discrimination, is not a human mark”
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl. I'm just normal, and that's what I'm going to ...
KELLY CLARKSON Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common
DOROTHY PARKER Had Hurricane Katrina not come through here, Rita would be the event of the decade.
GIL JAMIESON It was a very cold and windy storm.
DAN ATKIN It's back to normal, but it's a different normal. It's not the same as it was before, but people are...
ERIC YOUNG If there was a terrible storm outside, but somehow this dog lived through the storm, and he showed u...
JACK HANDY Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
ANON. Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm
SARAH FERGUSON Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm
REINHOLD NIEBUHR It's the first storm of the season and we've got to gear up for it. We expect to have a normal commu...
DAN BRUCKER After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that it was not storm-related, but was caused by a...
LORD BROWNE Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
DONNA MILLS The fear I had was Rita would be the knockout punch to a city that still had its heart and soul.
BRUCE HICKS You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
SAM HARRIS By writing quotes...I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm.
TOBA BETA By writing quotes...
I mark a trail
of my soul's journey in this realm.
TOBA BETA Not any more than I usually do, ... I never was normal anyhow.
LEO MAZZONE I think everyone was underestimating the impact of Rita on refineries. It wasn't a Howitzer blow, bu...
TOM KLOZA I never once said anything bad about Mark Roman. I'm not that type of guy and I'm not that type of p...
EARL LITTLE Well, that's up to really Mark Burnett and myself and NBC ( search ) as to whether or not the Martha...
DONALD TRUMP Hearing Rita was one of the most powerful hurricanes in the history of the Gulf was enough for me to...
ROBERTO GARCIA I think there's gong to be hurricane effect for next couple of readings. It's not just Katrina and R...
JEOFF HALL He was just a normal kid. He was a normal kid for his age. He was just starting to grow when he went...
CLIFFORD CHUBB I was a normal American nerd.
JACK HERER was nice — just a normal person.
JOHNNY DEPP I will not be remembered in history. I have not been shot. I have not launched any great tragedy or ...
HELMUT SCHMIDT What is going on in Belarus can be compared to the storm of a fortress. This was the first storm. We...
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH From “Rock Star” in Every Lyric Tells A Story.
What happens to a rock star
When he get...
MARK WILKINS Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I want to leave a mark.
But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREEN We're getting a little more Rita than we wanted to get,
JULIE WILSON There was somewhat of a perfect storm helping GM today.
GREGG KLEIN Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approac...
CASSANDRA CLARE A storm is coming. A great storm.
SARAH J. MAAS I am not a normal man.
STEVIE WONDER Hurricane Rita has devastated our electrical system,
JOE DOMINO The market is now taking a pause to assess just what Rita will do. It won't fully digest Rita until ...
JARROD KERR It was truly an amazing storm.
DOUGLAS VOGELSANG For him, there was nothing that was not normal. He asked for a product that was given to him, and he...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE I was crying the day I heard about Rita. I thought, surely it's going to hit New Orleans again.
AMBER GRUSH This is not a scare tactic -- it's realistic. This is a devastating storm.
SCOTT MCCLOUD I'm not going to make estimates, ... These are individuals who perished in a storm, and each one is ...
MELISSA WALKER I'm not going to make estimates. These are individuals who perished in a storm, and each one is very...
MELISSA WALKER Who hasn't had interest from Rita Ora?
JAMES ARTHUR It was black and the storm was really starting to brew, ... I was kind of thinking this might not wo...
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