Oak tree Quote by Richard Mabey

“That said, a fireball like the one hurtling towards us was worthy of the utmost respect. To adopt the jargon of commercial managers, this…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“Something, which the police called a bomb, had exploded in his shed. Investigations were begun, and the efforts of the authorities were soon to…

— Ernst von Salomon

As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would…

— Tom Paxton

Who put the flower in the barrel of that gun?

— Live (Band

“The human louse somewhat resembles a tiny lobster, and he lives chiefly in your trousers. Short of burning all your clothes there is no…

— George Orwell

“He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly…

— Gwen Cooper

“It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared,…

— Alice Munro

“And there it was—a box of ammunition tucked into one corner of the box. Twenty rounds of .380 ACP hardball. Full metal jacket. Reaching…

— Stephen England

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than…

— Peter Hilton

“As the world stood on the brink of war in August 1914, the local paper of a small town in the west of Ireland…

— Robert Hutton

What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked. 'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale. 'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“He saw a small, secondary explosion in the mushroom column. A yellow sphere flared in orange and then smoke swamped it. It had to…

— Gregory Benford