Quotes About Impact

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

History is a symptom of our disease

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

the worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.

He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

Words are weapons of war.

Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

hit with your fist, not with your finger spread