Exploding Quotes - Page 5

• My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

  Richard Ford

  Father, Arms, Died

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• Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

  Don Tapscott

  Needs, Lifelong Learning, Plans

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

  Duncan Jones

  Real, Battle, Littles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Stars, War, Sky

  "Babylon 5: The Gathering". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Ocean, Years, Lasts

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• I don't like doing action movies. They're not that interesting... it's fun to do the physical element but the really fun stuff, like running into exploding buildings, they won't let you do. There's too much money riding on you not getting hurt. But yes, there's something exhilarating in just sitting on a beach with somebody having a real conversation. There's something exhilarating about being open and honest.

  Channing Tatum

  Running, Beach, Hurt

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Language is what stops the heart exploding.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Language

  "Shafts of sunlight". www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  War, People, Mind

  "Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game" by Arthur M. Cox, (p. 10), 1982.

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• I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

  Jon Bernthal

  Art, New York, Mean

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Vocabulary, Light

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.

  Hal Duncan

  Angel, Heart, Army

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• Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.

  Louise Bernikow

  Team, Mean, Men

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• Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!

  David Letterman

  Nike, Air, Sneakers

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• Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

  Graham Chapman

  Perfectly Normal, Medical, Phenomenon

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• I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

  Rob Thurman

  Distance, Sound, Moral

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• Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.

  James Patterson

  Men, Fire, Guy

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot.

  Nick Burd

  Beautiful, Rainbow, Car

  Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.87, Penguin

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• So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

  John Updike

  Rotting, Too Much, Dandelions

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.120, Random House

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• Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

  Janet Fitch

  July, Broken, Wish

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• I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.

  James Patterson

  Mom, Kicks, Handy

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Action, Fame

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Laughter, Men, Gun

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day”

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• Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

  May Sarton

  Years, Light, Dying

  May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
  Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
  Reverberance of hail upon the dead
  Thunder like an exploding crucible!

  Allen Tate

  Dark, Crucible, Arches

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.19, Macmillan

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• The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.

  Arthur Caplan

  Decision, Challenges, Boards

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