Top 100 Explodes Quotes
#1. If you want to know what political extremism can lead to, look at the Zapruder film. Take particular note of frame 313, where Kennedy's head explodes.
Stephen King
#2. Baby don't wake me, let me take you on an endless journey. We touch and the softest kiss explodes with lust. It's real and you can't deny the heat you feel. And if I die before I wake, baby that's all right.
Steve Vai
#3. Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!
George Bernard Shaw
#4. Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
Peter Capaldi
#5. Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits the Earth.
Shekhar Kapur
#6. Perception always makes precedence over reality
.
Time explodes everything.
They will seek, we will create, they will find.
Fraser Beath McEwing
#7. I feel like it's the most boring thing, sitting on the treadmill or on a bike. It just explodes my mind!
Liam Hemsworth
#8. Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#9. A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes - and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#10. I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.
Gregory Nicotero
#11. 3The voice of the Eternal echoes over the great waters; God's magnificence roars like thunder. The Eternal's presence hovers over all the waters. 4His voice explodes in great power over the earth. His voice is both regal and grand.
Anonymous
#12. Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.
Mason Cooley
#13. Piper glanced at the digital clock. "So ... we have exactly one hour to find your runaway table, get back your synco-whatsit, and install it in this engine, or the Argo II explodes, destroying Bunker Nine and most of the woods." "Basically," Leo said.
Rick Riordan
#14. Energy is what I had lived so long beside. Energy is who I had married - the energy that permeates life, that comes out of every pore and explodes into the world.
Marie Tillman
#15. It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment
that explodes in poetry.
Adrienne Rich
#16. It explodes too close, the heat pulsing through my hasty lightning shield. Dimly, I wonder if I'll die without eyebrows.
Victoria Aveyard
#17. You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
Shaun White
#18. While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below.
Amy Seidl
#19. Most of the time
99 percent of the time
you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.
Lauren Oliver
#20. A Touch of Crimson explodes with passion and heat. A hot, sexy angel to die for and a gutsy heroine make for one exciting read!
Cheyenne McCray
#21. Because of the way society sets them up, women never again experience the need to develop independence - until some crisis in later life explodes their complacency, showing them how sadly helpless and undeveloped they've allowed themselves to be.
Colette Dowling
#22. I suddenly understand why people describe kissing as melting because every square inch of my body dissolves into his. My fingers grip his hair, pulling him closer. My veins throb and my heart explodes. I have never wanted anyone like this before. Ever.
Stephanie Perkins
#23. And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain down on somewhere else.
Joey Comeau
#24. You have to love someone to yell at them so intensely; you have to care so unbelievably much that your anger explodes and burns across the sky like the Soviet's Sputnik.
Jillian Cantor
#25. Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.
Gopichand Lagadapati
#26. At breakfast one Saturday I decided to tell Hank my desire to go back to work. He explodes, 'What can you do? You can't make enough to buy your own Kotex
Martha Lemasters
#27. A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.
Robert Veninga
#28. When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.
Austin Grossman
#29. Any time your head explodes, that's not a good situation.
Tom Arnold
#30. The world isn't always black and white. sometimes, it's gray, and sometimes that gray explodes into colors you never knew existed before.
J.M. Darhower
#31. What happens to rage deferred? It explodes. It explodes in spectacular fashion.
J.A. Konrath
#32. You all want to be the hero in the film who runs away in slo-mo from the villain's factory that he's just mined, throwing himself to the ground as it explodes. But the explosion's taking place already - it's always been taking place. You just didn't notice ...
Tom McCarthy
#33. What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.
Mac Anderson
#34. On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.
Tyler Oakley
#35. I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
Bill Nye
#36. I don't have a choice. A kytaen comes at me, all teeth and claws, and instinct takes over. The magic that has been dormant for so long explodes out of me, and I become the beast I truly am. And with fire and fury and the will to survive, I pounce.
Giselle Simlett
#37. The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man, reading is most sacred, For from words come dreams and from dreams come great tomorrows.
Stephen Cosgrove
#38. He doesn't even care about you!" Warner explodes. I flinch at the sudden, uncontrolled intensity in his voice.
"He just wants a way out of here and he's using you!"
He steps forward. "I could love you, Juliette-I would treat you like a queen-
Tahereh Mafi
#39. Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.
Joy Williams
#40. Sometimes emotion is gentle, like rain feeding the river to nourish life, but sometimes it explodes like a rainstorm whose floodwaters wipe out bridges and homes.
Deborah Sandella
#41. Despair ... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes
Hiroya Oku
#42. Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
Lamar Alexander
#43. I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head Explodes' is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes.
Ty Segall
#44. EAMES: Shouldn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Arthur-
Eames lines up a shot with a grenade launcher. Fires- the sniper EXPLODES into the air- Arthur looks at Eames.
EAMES: Shall we?
Christopher J. Nolan
#45. Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge
and follow its advice
the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.
Peter McWilliams
#46. The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.
Thomas Lennon
#47. Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.
Nuruddin Farah
#48. The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control ... Good writing ... explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.
Joy Williams
#50. Ruger's eyes darkened.
"You want this as much as I do," he said, voice soft. "It's not goin' away. We're just going to burn up higher and higher until one of us explodes and we get hurt. Let's end it now. I need inside you, Sophie.
Joanna Wylde
#51. I don't want their help," he explodes. "I don't want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.
Jodi Picoult
#52. I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
Billy Joel
#53. She's your Herald," Derek said. "That's your color. Blue for humanity."
My what?
He made a big show of moving a few feet to the side.
I looked at him.
"In case your head explodes," he said helpfully.
Ilona Andrews
#54. If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#55. Try to forget bit by bit, it will be easier on you. Leave it behind. Then the plane tilts in its escape and over the gray wing the city explodes into view with all its miles and spires and inscrutable hustle and as you try to comprehend this sight you realize that you were never really there at all.
Colson Whitehead
#56. There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#57. In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#58. Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.
Roger Rosenblatt
#59. So that's it?" I say, stunned. "You throw information into someone else's life like a grenade and you walk away before it explodes?
Jodi Picoult
#60. Oops. Sorry, everybody. This book is not officially endorsed by the proper Muse. If it explodes in your hand, my bad.
Rick Riordan
#61. I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.
Octavia Spencer
#62. Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
Lynn Austin
#63. Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
John Fowles
#64. I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
Oliver Reed
#65. I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.
Nicolas Cage
#66. We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
Mark Helprin
#67. I am not looking to escape the pressure. I am embracing it. Pressure is what builds up in the chamber behind a bullet before it explodes out of the gun.
Ronda Rousey
#68. I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. 'You'll have to do better than that,' I say.
Veronica Roth
#69. According to Shauna Rae, you just never know when the people next door are cooking meth until the trailer explodes.
Lexi Blake
#70. I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#71. To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.
Herman Melville
#72. You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...
Atiq Rahimi
#73. There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.
Joan Chen
#75. And may the odds -" He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.
I catch it in my mouth and break the delicate skin with my teeth. The sweet tartness explodes across my tongue. "- be ever in your favor!" I finish with equal verve.
Suzanne Collins
#76. So many women come to me saying, "I have lost too,
and this one, and this one". So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don't tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.
Zoe Brigley
#77. I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
Robert Smith
#78. The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
Ezra Pound
#79. The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.
Tim Berners-Lee
#80. Thought that he was a clock was like a clock was like a spring in a clock when it breaks and explodes when he had his fits. But he was not like a clock or at least was only like a clock to me. But to himself? Who knows? And so it is not he who was like a clock but me.
Paul Harding
#81. Suddenly he goes into the last phase - the human virus bomb explodes. Military biohazard specialists have ways of describing this occurrence. They say that the victim has "crashed and bled out." Or more politely they say that the victim has "gone down.
Richard Preston
#82. In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
John Steinbeck
#83. Ack! I'm blind. Old man dick alert. Cover it up. She protested with her mouth, yet her eyes remained locked on his bare body. He swelled up to an even mightier size. Good grief. Just how big does that thing get? Should I duck and cover before it explodes?
Eve Langlais
#84. The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.
Herbert Marcuse
#85. When I fall from the tree, every future climbing move explodes apart in my mind, a deck of cards thrown in the air.
Ned Hayes
#86. He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Unbelievable. I leave you alone for two hours and you fall off a cliff, get attacked by a crow and a snake explodes all over you." "Pretty
Karina Halle
#87. The universe explodes, hell freezes, and Shane does something resonable.
Rachel Caine
#88. I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."
Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.)
Gary Matsumoto
#89. Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen."
I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
Neal Shusterman
#91. In the distance, a building explodes in flame. She has over a hundred men working this district, letting everyone feel the pain of real enforcement. Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. People have forgotten this.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#92. Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.
Donald Young
#93. Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.
Ray Winstone
#94. It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.
Jimmy Buffett
#95. Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
Lady Gaga
#96. When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. Grief is like that sometimes. Like water, it finds any opening, forces itself through any crack until it explodes, inexorable.
Cody McFadyen
#98. The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.
Gail Collins
#99. How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
John Updike
#100. And if the boat sinks?"
"And if the sun explodes?" Elliot countered.
Diana Peterfreund
