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Quotes About Explosive

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.
~ Anthony Horowitz
From the ecological point of view an outbreak can be defined as an explosive increase in the abundance of a particular species that occurs over a relatively short period of time." Then, in the same bland tone, he noted: "From this perspective, the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.
~ David Quammen
Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.
~ Dean F. Wilson
Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.
~ Sharon Stone
Readers are keepers of secrets: as an illicit page is turned, as a dangerous truth is inferred. The pulse quickens. Something explosive ticks between the lines. There is an intake of breath; the voyeur's silent flare of recognition. All the while, his or her face is impassive, unremarkable even, because like all subversives, readers lead careful double lives.
~ Alison MacLeod
The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.
~ Ally Carter
Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life.
~ Lawrence Osborne
Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.
~ Richelle Mead
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
~ Yasser Arafat
Both politicians and voters are barely able to comprehend the new technologies, let alone regulate their explosive potential.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Minnen är som bomber.
~ Deborah Levy
I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
When she looks up again two miles later, she says, "You know what I like about you, Finch? You're interesting. You're different. And I can talk to you. Don't let that go to your head." The air around us feels charged and electric, like if you were to strike a match, the air, the car, Violet, me—everything might just explode. I keep my eyes on the road. "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.
~ Jennifer Niven
He called out to no one in particular, Fire in the Hole!
~ Elmore Leonard
For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
~ Emily Bronte
Two dozen controlled charges detonated in their chambers, driving two dozen alloy cylinders out of their mounts at over a thousand miles per hour. Upon impact, each bar pulverized the contact area plus the surrounding fifteen centimeters, effectively blowing the door off its damn hinges. As the captain would say.
~ Eoin Colfer
Yelling, 'Fire in the hole!' and blowing your brains through a straw?
~ Amy Lane
but really, I just wanted to write shit-go-boom, then-there's-pecs-and-peen! This one's fantasy. Eat popcorn and enjoy.
~ Amy Lane
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
~ Matthew Pearl
Low-grade emotions continually affect our thinking, and they originate from our own impulses—for instance, the desire for pleasing and comforting thoughts. High-grade emotion, however, comes at certain moments, reaches an explosive pitch, and is generally sparked by something external—a person who gets under our skin, or particular circumstances. The level of arousal is higher and our attention is captured completely.
~ Robert Greene
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
~ Robert Heinlein
We got places to go, people to meet, and things to blow up!That needs to be cross-stiched on a pillow
~ Ezekiel Carsella
His smile is laced with dynamite.
~ Tahereh Mafi
They long for shelter and do not ask about boundless horizons. Otherwise they would find themselves going with him on his explosive path.
~ Adrienne von Speyr