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Quotes About Bomb

I don't know how Albert would have felt about this, but an unknown element was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb test in the Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific, on November 1, 1952, and was named einsteinium in his honor. I might have named it armageddium instead.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.
~ Peter Handke
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Yelling was like a bomb in the corner: you saw it, watched the fuse burn, and you knew when it would explode and you needed to run for cover. Not speaking was a killer somewhere in your house with a gun when you were sleeping.
~ Kristin Hannah
Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.
~ Burt Prelutsky
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
~ The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
say the rest, not when his brother was so white and stiff. "And?" "And they realized the caller meant a bomb in the theater. The police were there within minutes, five, ten at the most. They heard it go off." Alexander pressed his lips together. "Where?" "In her office. Alexander," he continued quickly, "she wouldn't have been in there. Eve's too smart for that.
~ Nora Roberts
He felt unreal those days of the riots when his streets were made strange by violence. Despite what America saw on the news, only a fraction of the community had picked up bricks and bats and kerosene. The devastation had been nothing compared to what lay before him now, but if you bottled the rage and hope and fury of all the people of Harlem and made it into a bomb, the results would look something like this.
~ Colson Whitehead
The Mont Blanc, with 2,925 tons of explosives in barrels and kegs, packed in hermetically sealed holds inside a super-heated hull, was now the most powerful bomb the war and the world had ever produced.
~ Laura M. MacDonald
And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world peace. The atom bomb is too terrible a weapon. It must not drop again.
~ Laurence Yep
Abruptly the destroyer lurched and began to nose about toward Kashyyyk's crescent of bright side. The brain wants to complete the task it was in the middle of when the ship was shut down, Filli said. Starstone turned to him. What was the task? It thinks that the Separatists are losing Kachirho. It's converting itself into a giant bomb!
~ James Luceno
It's, like, a safety bomb." -Iggy
~ James Patterson
What? I said, suspicion starting to rise in me. When did they start coming after you? Was it— was it after the oil-slick Hummer crash? the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash? Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. Or maybe it was more— after the bomb, the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. I think it was the bomb, Iggy agreed. That definitely seemed to tick them off.
~ James Patterson
Your brothers have set off a stink bomb in the second-floor boys' lavatory
~ James Patterson
The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have signalled somebody in a dimension which is sharing space with us very closely.
~ Dwight Schultz
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
~ Graham Hawkes
In TV, you have no time and sort of just carpet bomb the scene with as many angles as possible as quickly as possible and find it in the edit.
~ Cary Fukunaga
I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
~ Joe E. Lewis
So you're coming along with me, increasing our risk of being identified and allowing Achilles to get his two worst nemeses with one well-placed bomb, in order to save my life?
~ Orson Scott Card
Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the headmistress. Throughout the rest of the period, both of them tried to figure out who set off the bomb and gave us lectures on our rowdy behaviour.
~ Chetan Bhagat
done it. However, just prior to the teacher's arrival, someone had a brainwave. He planted a Diwali bomb with a
~ Chetan Bhagat
In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists - "As beatiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella" - can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids.
~ H.R. Giger
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima…. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
~ Harry S. Truman
If there's a takeaway from working here, it's an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.
~ Laurie Nadel