Explosion Quotes

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. (Octave Mirbeau)
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. View quote
Ray Bradbury
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion. View quote
Bertrand Russell
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. View quote
Sally Ride
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. View quote
Germaine Greer
[Fascism] was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly. View quote
Oswald Mosley
I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. View quote
Douglas Adams
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning. (Rod Serling)
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money. View quote
Ben Affleck
How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning. View quote
Pentti Linkola
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. View quote
Tony Blair
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Art is an explosion. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Could I just use the loo?” I asked the nice officer. "No.” She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly. View quote
Rick Riordan
Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM! View quote
Rick Riordan
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah. That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
Let's just say I understand betrayal. And having been where he is, I know the explosion to come. Trust me. ‘Duck' won't quite cover it. (Sin) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive. View quote
Adam Ant
When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion. View quote
David Christian
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion. View quote
Barbara Castle
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet. View quote
David Niven