Explosions Quotes - Page 2

• The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

  Jim Harrison

  Media, Facts, Interstate

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

  Tony Blair

  Sleep, Wife, Nuclear

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• I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

  Jay McInerney

  Crazy, Mean, Interesting

  "The beautiful and the damned". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Waiting, Sitting

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

  Reba McEntire

  Brother, Airports, Mirrors

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  Sally Ride

  Firsts, Excited, Worried

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Space, Brain

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

  Fred Upton

  Views, Media, Common Sense

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• It's not the end of the world to lose.

  Andy Murray

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, World, Baseball Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

  Boris Pasternak

  World, Saws, Planning

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• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Israel, Population

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Explosions are not comfortable.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Preparation, Comfortable

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• 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.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Age, Sound, Nuclear

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• Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Elements, Splits

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• 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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Good Morning, Good Day, Reality

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

  Jim Rohn

  Needs, Emotion, Minors

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2016

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• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Oil, Economic, Britain

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• I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

  Norman Jewison

  Character, Thinking, People

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

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• What you see is what you get.

  Flip Wilson

  Cheer, Gossip Girl, Love Life

  "Character: Geraldine". "Flip", TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970-1974.

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• Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

  Ellen Glasgow

  Moderation

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• Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

  Russell M. Nelson

  Printing, Produce, Shops

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• I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

  Joel Silver

  Cleveland, Want, Size

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

  W. H. Auden

  Leadership, Imagination, Quality

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays". Book by W. H. Auden. Chapter: "The Poet and The City", p. 84, 1962.

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• I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.

  John Chafee

  Thinking, Oil, Damage

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