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Quotes About Explosion

A lot of people always look back at 'Twin Peaks' and say that was the start of this explosion we've had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.
~ Mark Frost
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
~ Adam Ant
She heaved two or three times, as if sobbing, and suddenly sneezed -- not a polite 'atchoo' but a thermonuclear explosion so powerful that she staggered in place, nearly losing her balance, and some loitering Hispanic men on the other side of the boulevard looked up alertly, ready for action.
~ Neal Stephenson
Daniel got dressed. Much of his clothing had been blown up.
~ Neal Stephenson
Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.
~ Ned Vizzini
He'd been so neglected as a child that the withdrawal of love pulled all his emotional triggers, exploding the carapace of narcissism built by his childhood escapism. As
~ Neil Strauss
Nothing says Christmas like a burning meth lab.
~ Christopher Moore
The loft looked as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy-bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.
~ Christopher Moore
At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors, and above all the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back.
~ Christopher Paolini
The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion under the Caesars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar of Rome, they were the vaults of the world.
~ Victor Hugo
What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.
~ Victor Hugo
Don't talk to me, don't approach me, don't ask your ordinary, everyday questions when my world has exploded.
~ Kristin Hannah
The situation collapsed completely at dinner one September evening. Perhaps it was the full moon that drove me to madness, or the gnawing, relentless emptiness of my heart. Whatever the trigger, the powder had been well packed, and my explosion, though shocking, was not altogether unexpected.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Kick-starting the gas-guzzling subcompact go-cart of organic sentience is as easy as shoving it down a hill and watching the whole thing spontaneously explode.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The brain is like a pressure cooker and it can only take so much before it blows.
~ Cathy Glass
The first time the South Dakota's main battery was tested with a full nine-gun broadside, the wave of blast pressure pushed through the passageway where Captain Thomas Gatch was standing, tearing his pants right off him.
~ James D. Hornfischer
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
~ Jack Kemp
Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
~ Chris Moneymaker
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
~ Terry Pratchett
You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.
~ Henry Louis Gates
At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.
~ Nicole Blackman
I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I realized something else no one tells you: that a child is a grenade. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was.
~ Nora Ephron
Passion didn't bloom, it didn't whisper. It exploded so that even the air around them seemed to shudder with it.
~ Nora Roberts
Or, I could just sit in the bushes and pump the hand pump until the plumbing was superpressurized to 110 psi. This way, when someone goes to flush a toilet, the toilet tank will explode. At 150 psi, if someone turns on the shower, the water pressure will blow off the shower head, strip the threads, blam, the shower head turns into a mortar shell. Tyler only says this to make me feel better. The truth is I like my boss. Besides, I'm enlightened now. You know, only Buddha-style behavior.
~ Chuck Palahniuk