Detonated Quotes

#1. Two live grenades that nearly detonated each other. Wave the white flag and count your dead. The war is over. Nurse the wounded and heal your cuts. Write down the memories and tell the tales in later years when you can see the good with the bad.

Kate Monahan

#2. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

Selma Blair

#3. She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

Ted Turner

#5. Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.

Sam Whitehouse

#6. The sun dropped beneath the horizon and then detonated, torching the racks of clouds stacked up above the downtown skyline. Wyatt had forgotten how quickly, in the vast empty sky of the southern plains, the ordinary could turn so flamboyant.

Lou Berney

#7. Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled")

Rudyard Kipling

#8. You can't have a decent party for the survivors of a deadly blast without inviting the person who detonated the explosion.

Anthony Rubino Jr.

#9. I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian)
Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. A heavy object connected with the back of my head and a burst of colors detonated in my brain. I saw stars. And then black. I crumpled to the ground, my last thought being: there were two of them.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#11. When I'd begun my last relationship, nearly two decades ago, I'd been unaware of the rule that new lovers must hoard the 'L Word' the way atomic nations hoard their explosives, like something that, once detonated, would change their world forever.

Anya Ulinich

#12. The blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical.

Eric Chaisson

#13. Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Karan Mahajan

#14. When my old life died, it didn't go quietly. It detonated.

Christina Lauren

#15. Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

Charlie Sheen

#16. Holy freaking crap. A suicide bomber just detonated a bomb in my brain,

Megan Thomason

#17. I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

Carol Gilligan

#18. If this really were your last day, you'd want to spend it with someone, or doing something, you love. Don't ask permission. Don't wait until next week. Just go out there and get it.

Linda Gray

#19. Scientific Progress goes boink?

Bill Watterson

#20. Few things can be pleasanter than riding a reliable broomstick through a moony autumn night. It is best of all when home is at the end of the journey.

Barbara Willard

#21. Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

Paulo Coelho

#22. The more I examine my own mind, the more romantic I find myself.

Michael Kelahan

#23. When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

Stephanie Beacham

#24. Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

John Henry Newman

#25. I'm noticing a lot of the big bloggers who've posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers' sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it's a question of being appropriate for the audience.

Jen Lancaster

#26. It's okay,' he said. 'I mean, it's not great, but it's okay.

Stephen King

#27. Words can be bridges.

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

#28. A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Marianne Williamson

#29. So put a quarter in your ass
Cuz ya played ya'self

Big Daddy Kane

#30. I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

Rip Taylor