All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast… — R. W. Apple Copy Share Image
In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that… — Paul J. Crutzen Copy Share Image
There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road;… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason for the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Who's with her?" Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. "With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster." Silence fell,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
