Avalanche Quotations

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.

We're still doing avalanche control when necessary. Especially (in the) upper regions.

We were a lot better offensively. It was great start. It was a big boost for us. It was nice to have a shot right back at the Avalanche after they beat us.

We were traversing across a snow field and he was ahead of me and then the avalanche broke above him, and just took him away and, you know, you're always running against the clock in a situation like this and I tried to do my best. I found him and he was still alive, eventually the doctor got there and it was out of my hands at that point.

We used to have to do a lot of hiking to get to our avalanche control routes. And it didn't increase the number of accidents that much, like we had anticipated, because of the quality of skiers up there.

Shortly after finding the body, they had to back out of the area because there was an avalanche in the area.

I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.

If Iowa has this image that we have a squeaky-clean government, this is a few drops of mud. But have we been buried under an avalanche of mud? No. Not yet, anyway.

If caught in an avalanche your chances are slim. Even if the guys with you have their act together.

I don't think we necessarily started off slow. I think they started off fast. What we tried to do was not get buried under the avalanche and that's what I told our guys. We watched their last game against Roanoke and they got them down 26-4. That's a tough climb to come back. I figured if we could handle their first rush of energy that would give us a chance to stay in the game. I knew we were going to play well, it was just a matter of when it was going to kick in.

There is an elevated avalanche danger, and it's going to stay that way for a little while.

There is an avalanche of evidence that will show that Noe's association with the coin fund was widely known, and making the assertion of concealment is preposterous.

He was a big senior person on the ski patrol there, and he was the lead avalanche forecaster for the mountain. This is a big loss for Mammoth.

kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.

I will be vocal. I will be heard. Avalanche fans have taken it pretty personal.

It is an accident waiting to happen. We have seen an enormous increase in backcountry skiing and snowshoeing over the last five years. It is only a matter of time until we see an avalanche triggered by these explosives that ends tragically.

Sue the industry and have them cave in or face imminent financial ruin by having to defend an avalanche of legally dubious lawsuits and bad publicity. That's their game plan,

Some people are risk takers and like to do that stuff. If they're going to do it, they should take the avalanche course.

The ABS avalanche backpack is a lifesaver, literally a lifesaver, ... In 43 deployments, there's only been one fatality.

That way if an avalanche comes down and one person gets buried, everyone else can look for them.

You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.

We were able to contain an avalanche in the second half.

We expect an avalanche of shareholders to jump on board of this (lawsuit).

We are not counting as this committee that we're going to get a windfall of money. What we don't want is an avalanche of loss.

This represents another step we must take in putting together the 2005-06 Avalanche team while maintaining the rights to players key to our organizational depth chart,

While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,

What started as a flurry has turned into an avalanche and should it snow over the Easter weekend we will have egg all over our face.

We don't want that to lull people. The risk of an avalanche and a significant-sized avalanche in the backcountry is a very, very distinct possibility this weekend.

Everything about Avalanche Days is geared to being family-friendly.

There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out. We have a reputation for putting out the very best books and we have no competitors in that respect. We're not putting out trivial books. These are like textbooks.

There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out,

They actually got to the top and were skiing down a ridge, which is normal avalanche safety.

The words that the avalanche expert used with us was that this was an extreme hazardous avalanche area. He said it's a red light area. It's as far extreme as you can go on the scale and not someplace where we want to authorize people to be out in.

The rise in auto and other consumer loan delinquencies reflects the avalanche of layoffs over the past year and a half. Until job growth gains upward momentum, relatively high levels of delinquencies will remain.

I've thought about it often. I haven't come close to an answer as to why the avalanche occurred that day, and not the day before.

Teamwork - A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

Our estimation is that he's under about 30 feet of snow right now which is going to make it almost impossible to find him with poles or regular things that you would use in an avalanche type of situation.

Avalanche is a vehicle without peers, selling more than 379,500 units since its spring 2001 launch through December 2005.

Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above you or when you're in a chute.

Avalanche created the segment and it continues to dominate it. In 2007, the original gets even better.

They dropped the charges in four different areas. Three charges were dropped above Shed 8. That brought down a Class 3 avalanche that ran to the top of the shed, with a small amount crossing over.

There was avalanche danger, and we usually like to let it get some sun and sit. But there hasn't been enough time.

They're going to put themselves at a very high risk of getting caught in an avalanche and possibly killed.

The most egregious instances of trespass have occurred for the purpose of recreational skiing, not for avalanche control.

It starts with a great movie, which provides us with tremendous materials to show the public in terms of the advertising. Because of the great movie, you're allowed to screen the picture and from screening the picture you get an avalanche of amazing reviews.

It's that event that's the beginning of the avalanche of this play. The first loose rock.

It's not an avalanche of lower prices, but it's better than it has been.

It was like we were in an avalanche there at the start. And when they got rolling, it was like a snowball going downhill. Camden was all they were advertised to be. They're well-coached, don't make mistakes and they win ? everything you need to do to be the No. 1 team in the state.

This is just a typical Tahoe storm. Our crews are always ready for avalanche control and we would much rather have a man-made slide bury the road then a natural slide.

It's nice we only see him once a year during the regular season. He's a great player and he's done tremendous things for the Colorado Avalanche franchise over the years. We were excited about going in and seeing him. He's a big part of the Avalanche history and always will be.

In the last few days we have had a different phenomenon, an avalanche of immigrants not seen before that surely has circumstantial causes that we will combat,

I read it over the phone to her and the avalanche started almost immediately.

If fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter...and the danger will increase with more snowfalls.

I fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter...and the danger will increase with more snowfalls.

I fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter... and the danger will increase with more snowfalls.

This has blossomed into a really big thing because now we know it's out there. That's why you see this avalanche now to try and stop it.

The Forest Service issued a 'high' avalanche warning on Tuesday. It really became hazardous conditions because we had 12 to 16 inches of new snow on top of old snow, and then we had high winds and some rain.