Explosions Quotes - Page 10

• I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, Men

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• I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

  Henry Hopper

  Robots, Want, Minutes

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• Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Reality, Understanding

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• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  Hari Kunzru

  Military, Thinking, Fiction

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• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Dream, Character, Fighting

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks BEING FLYNN and DREDD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I really love a challenge, but in 'Downton' it was really hard going because there's no CGI - what you see is what you get. These were real explosions right in front of our faces, and you just had to make sure that you cleared out of the way.

  Thomas Howes

  Real, Challenges, Way

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• I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

  Brit Marling

  Mean, Thinking, Sometimes

  "Brit Marling Talks Sound of My Voice, the East, Working With Robert Redford in the Company You Keep, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

  William Mapother

  Thought Provoking, Stories, Sci Fi

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• All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Flames, Fire, People

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• Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the
  rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly
  be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact?
  The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the
  fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal
  but life-giving.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Giving, Joy

  Lesslie Newbigin (2014). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society”, p.156, SPCK

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• The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Discovery

  "Science and Human Values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1956.

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• The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Photography, Fashion, Drama

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

  Damon Lindelof

  Fun, Smart, Understanding

  "Comic-con 2011: Charlize Theron & Damon Lindelof Interview Prometheus". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Work, Creative

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• The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Passion, Technology

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• No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.

  Jean Helion

  Real, Feelings, Doubt

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• There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.

  Eugene Wigner

  Development, Natural, Skepticism

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• A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sky, Long, Drones

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• The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.

  Emile Capouya

  Earth, Wretched

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• Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Blow, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Warfare, World

  Adams' commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, December 22, 1802.

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• The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

  Roland Barthes

  Answers, Interpretation, Existence

  "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 4, 1971.

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• 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.

  Randall Jarrell

  Fall, Writing, Heart

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", pp. 332 - 333, 1969.

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• The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fall, Ideas, Keys

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• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Kids, Responsibility

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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