Top 100 A Bomb Quotes
#1. She was so tired of the old way of telling stories, all those too-worn narrative paths, the familiar plot thickets, the fat social novels. She needed something messier, something sharper, something like a bomb going off.
Lauren Groff
#2. I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.
Mark Boal
#3. Playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome - one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class - and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged
Walter Isaacson
#4. The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.
Barack Obama
#5. I turned, ran, fired the shotgun into the air and shouted, "Bomb! There's a bomb in the fountain! Everybody run for your lives! Please don't not panic!
David Wong
#6. Life sometimes throws you a bomb when all you want is a hug.
J.D. Wylde
#7. TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off
Sylvia Plath
#8. You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
Les Baxter
#10. My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.
Jimmy Carter
#11. I had to learn the hard way that treating the skin like an A-bomb drop zone is completely counterproductive. And through my healing journey, I've discovered something miraculous: that moisturizers can heal in unimaginable ways.
Yancy Lael
#12. I've heard many times that people would make a comment, 'This looks like a bomb,' and still open it. That's one for the psychologists to answer.
Gavin De Becker
#13. If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.
Emilio G. Segre
#14. The trial seemed to be made for television. It involved an attractive lady wrestler, a wealthy Texas rancher and her architect husband, a bomb, and a murder plot.
Jacob Bembry
#15. I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.
Tim Conway
#16. There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
Aimee Bender
#17. How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.
Ted Cruz
#19. I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
Jacques LeBlanc
#20. Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.
Bill Dedman
#21. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.
Maurice De Vlaminck
#24. It really is a terrifying experience to be buzzed like that if you cannot see the airplane coming. You cannot hear it coming, at that speed, until it is just a fraction of a second away. Then the noise hits you like a bomb blast. You can really get someone's attention like that.
Milton O. Thompson
#25. I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
Joe E. Lewis
#26. One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
Ben Carson
#27. Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb
Jeanette Winterson
#28. Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.
Ben Cohen
#29. I have now played with both him (Cristiano Ronaldo) and Ronaldinho. And Ronaldo is top in Europe at the moment.
Both of them in the same team would be like a bomb. It would be an incredible spectacle for the people.
What's more, I am totally convinced the two are able to play in the same side.
Henrik Larsson
#30. Why you'll never see a woman with a bomb in her shoe: we have too much respect for shoes.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
#31. Her parents had basically abdicated their roles as guardians and she was building a bomb. In order to kill a poodle.
Kristen Tracy
#32. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.
Patrick Ness
#33. Not that it would have diminished the gravity of what had occurred. But bomb was different. A bomb meant not only tragic incident, but an intent to kill. Disasters were scary, all right. Evil combined with disasters was terrifying.
Elif Shafak
#34. But when you take over a ship with a bomb threat, you really go first-class.
Dave Barry
#35. A heartbreak isn't as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling and the most painful thing is no one really hears except you.
Anonymous
#36. I could break things in a thousand ways
anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.
Joshilyn Jackson
#37. I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.
Gary Oldman
#38. Some songs can wait for years, and then - boom! and explode like a bomb.
Verka Serduchka
#39. Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#40. The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
Ten thousand years are not enough
When so much remains to be done
Jeet Thayil
#41. For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?
Maria V. Snyder
#42. A terrorist for Karen is someone who has a bomb but no aeroplane.
Ch. 4
John Le Carre
#43. A drone isn't any different than a bomb; it's not any different than other weapons that are used, where there is always a capacity for people to be killed who you wished were not. It's just the weapons platform.
Tim Kaine
#44. Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.
Reza Aslan
#45. Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.
Rocky Bridges
#46. Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
Eric Holder
#47. The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.
Charlie Cook
#48. Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#49. In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.
Conan O'Brien
#50. On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.
Rand Paul
#51. He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.
Nathanael West
#52. In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.
Tina Fey
#53. I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]
Lise Meitner
#54. I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
Bashar Al-Assad
#55. I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.
Jimmy Carr
#56. Girl is not a toy to play .
She is a bomb to blast your life. So Be careful ...
Yakoob Khan
#57. It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.
Morgan Matson
#58. Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb
Valerie Plame
#59. If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
Ian Hacking
#60. During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
Adolf Galland
#61. Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath the
floorboards.
Kelly Creagh
#62. I could have been a bomb-disposal expert, or a volunteer for the Mars mission, or a firefighter, or something safe and sensible. But no, I had to be an historian.
Jodi Taylor
#63. A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
Bill Joy
#64. Morane gestured them to some seats near the front, but close to the archway. Probably Nicholas's preference, in case someone threw a bomb. Or in case he decided to throw one.
Martha Wells
#65. So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it's good to see you've got your wits about you.
Cecelia Ahern
#66. There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.
George W. Bush
#67. One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
Peter Higgs
#68. It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.
Joseph Goebbels
#69. Was it a fire in the kitchen?
No, a bomb in the basement.
David Baldacci
#70. One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable
that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
H.L. Mencken
#71. Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word ... nothing actually happens.
Richard Curtis
#72. And when I say it, they get alarmed ...
'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.
Chuck D
#73. We had one idiot put a bomb in a shoe, and now everybody's got to take their shoes off? Where's the bra bomber at? I say, if we've gotta wait in line, let's make it fun for everybody.
Alonzo Bodden
#74. Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.
Jamie Cullum
#75. How instant it was, desire. It was like a bomb exploding, fragmenting and igniting all her nerve endings.
Paullina Simons
#76. A wedding gown entails multilayering of expensive specialty fabrics for an outfit whose useful lifespan may come and go in a single afternoon. Much like a bomb suit.
Mary Roach
#77. Pamela shook her head as she swiveled the computer screen so Noah could see the grainy black-and-white video of a group of men in SWAT gear approaching a box. Soon there was a bomb-bot poking the thing, and finally a new man in protective gear picked it up. "Harley is being stalked by someone her
Lucy McConnell
#78. A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
William Blum
#79. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.
Anne Waldman
#80. Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.
Mohamed Zahy Hussain
#81. Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.
Mario Batali
#82. The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.
Richard Ayoade
#83. And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#84. Sorry for the delay," Vogel said. "I was required to make a bomb.
Andy Weir
#85. Are we making a bomb?"
"This is a trust exercise, like in drama," she says.
"Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?
Joe Dunthorne
#86. The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
Christian Slater
#87. If a bomb has your name on it, you are dead whatever you do; and if not, it will miss you.
James Lingard
#88. An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.
Karen Joy Fowler
#89. Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
Edward Young
#90. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe.
G.K. Chesterton
#91. when fission was discovered, within perhaps a week there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer's office a drawing - a very bad, an execrable drawing - of a bomb.
Richard Rhodes
#92. You're the one always beside me when a bomb going to explode.
Suh Jung
#93. Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?
Stephanie Mills
#94. No one seemed to understand. I'd go to movies, see friends, but after a couple days I'd catch myself reading plane schedules, looking for something, someplace to go: a bomb in Afghanistan, a flood in Haiti. I'd become a predator, endlessly gliding in saltwater seas, searching for the scent of blood.
Anderson Cooper
#95. I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.
Natalie Martinez
#96. Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
Charlie Sheen
#97. The kid smiled, "Not just any fire extinguisher. It's a bomb. My grandpa was in Iraq. This is an IED. He showed me how to make them.
Eric Johnson
#98. I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.
Ray Winstone
#99. Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.
John Fogerty
#100. Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful.
Victor Lodato
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