Detonation Quotes

#1. During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth's atmosphere. They just didn't know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won't propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy.

Peter F. Hamilton

#2. an atom, and the resulting detonation blinded them all.

Jason Gurley

#3. All that power held dormant, sleeping, only needing the detonation of a touch to trigger a chaos in which mind was subservient to passion, mind's will extinguished in body's will.

Colleen McCullough

#4. The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god's hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.

Steven Erikson

#5. They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.

Michael Scheuer

#6. The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.

Alan Cranston

#7. I am wary of any gun, anywhere, anytime - except when it's in Stormy's hand. She could sit with her finger on the detonation button of a nuclear weapon, and I would feel safe enough to nap.

Dean Koontz

#8. Blowing up isn't always external. It's not always easy to hear or see. Synapses fire every day in my brain. Thinking is just like exploding until it eventually scars you and you can't interact with people anymore. It's like one big, final detonation.

A.S. King

#9. The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

Tom Waits

#10. Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.

Anthony Powell

#11. I need you," he said to her, this woman who'd fought for her own right to live her life free of limits, "to build me some remote detonation devices."
Amazing brown eyes shot with blue peering into his as she pressed her nose to his. "You always say the most romantic things.

Nalini Singh

#12. The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the tune of blast harmonics that only he can hear, but what is "The Star Spangled Banner" if not a love song?

Ben Fountain

#13. I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

#14. It's that find some inspiration, it's that crack the installation, it's that quantum jump and that fist pump and that bomb detonation...

Kendrick Lamar

#15. 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

#16. A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

John Bruton

#17. 'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#18. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

William Gibson

#19. Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

Isabel Allende

#20. It's kind of cool - and it makes me feel like a badass. I get more girls than my boyfriend. They always tweet me about my booty.

Naya Rivera

#21. If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

Matt Lanter

#22. You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

Paullina Simons

#23. When you're stuck, when you need a jolt, when you crave to see things from a new perspective, it's time to play.

Elle Luna

#24. To some people, the miraculous appears to be everyday. To others, every day is a miracle. Which person are you?

Rainer Rey

#25. Now I can wear high heels again.

Nicole Kidman

#26. Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.

Pythagoras

#27. Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.

Pamela Clare

#28. All the stuff she says on the radio. It's just fear. The world is leaving people like her behind, and it scares the shit out of her.

Matthew Norman

#29. The world seemed somehow different when one was lying down. Darker, more dangerous ... And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance between them, he became her entire world.

Julia Quinn

#30. To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

Emile M. Cioran