Been Quote by Lionel Shriver

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to…

— John H. Lienhard

if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face…

— Doris Day

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if…

— Allen W. Wood

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering…

— Robert Anton Wilson

In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

— Paul Virilio

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there…

— Ray Bradbury

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age…

— Arnon Goldfinger

“The atom bomb wasn’t used in Korea,” Father contributed. They really didn’t see it. “America planned to use the bomb,” she insisted. “Everything was…

— Jane Davis

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of…

— Wilfred Burchett

“I come and stand at every door But none can hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead…

— Nazim Hikmet