Explosion Box Quotes

#1. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Ben Harper

#2. A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. 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.

Rosie Perez

#4. What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

R. J. Anderson

#5. In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

Edward Gibbon

#6. Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

Hans F. Sennholz

#7. 'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

Nick Harkaway

#8. You're like a box of chocolates with the menu missing - the card that tells you what they are. I never know what I'm going to get with you: a soft, creamy centre, something chewy, or an explosion of alcohol.

Linda Gillard

#9. The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

George Rogers Clark

#10. You never worry about the last laugh if you've been laughing the whole time

Drake

#11. Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.

Mary Jo Putney

#12. I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Mary McCarthy

#13. More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.

Robert Jeffress

#14. People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. Human beings cannot live without stories.

Ann Douglas