Top 437 Explosion Quotes & Sayings

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

I loved science. Bunsen burners - I couldn't wait for an explosion!

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion.

The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we have done in the Middle East are contributing to a potential explosion region-wide. And if that explosion gets out of hand, we may end up being bogged down for many years to come in a conflict that will be profoundly damaging to our capacity to exercise our power, to address the problems implicit in this global awakening, and we may face a world in which much of the world turns away from us, seeks its own equilibrium, but probably slides into a growing chaos.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

IT for a long time has been about how do you make old processes more efficient. But with all of the progress in digital technology, there is a kind of digital transformation that is occurring. And you see it with the explosion in the number of devices; you see it in the explosion in the number of applications.

I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.

One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.

The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.

?The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.

You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.

Everything went great right up to the explosion.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like the Wile E. Coyote dynamite plunger, where he pushes the plunger down and then you see the fuse go then there's an explosion in the distance? That's like writing a joke for somebody. When you tell the joke, you're in the explosion.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All these parameters changed the art world form its previous aspects and fundamentals - the explosion of museums and institutions, explosion of Biennales and Triennials, explosion of money, explosion of interest, explosion of artists, explosion of countries interested in contemporary exhibitions, explosion of the public. Not to see that is to be more than blind.

Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.