Explosions Quotes
255 quotes by 238 authors
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Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red…
— Dave Eggers
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If…
— Paulo Coelho
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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical…
— Alessandro Baricco
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Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so…
— John Green
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The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender…
— Tana French
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2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and…
— Charles Bukowski
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The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.
— J. G. Ballard
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment,…
— Laura Esquivel
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can…
— Salman Rushdie
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Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the…
— Roland Barthes
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Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.
— Nathanael West
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Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion…
— Dan Brown
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Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone…
— Margaret George
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I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves…
— Emma Forrest
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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.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light.…
— Michael Grant
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