Explosive Quotes

#1. I'm very emotional, very explosive, very temperamental.

James Fox

#2. Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

Spencer Gordon

#3. Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

Yasser Arafat

#4. Endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements.

Diane Setterfield

#5. I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

Tommy Thompson

#6. This is what makes this team so dangerous: at any time in the game, even after they've gotten hit in the mouth all day, they're still that explosive.

Michael Irvin

#7. The easily perceptible linear thread through our lives causes a basic misunderstanding when we tend to give the same weight to years, months, and days. The briefest moments can have an explosive power that overwhelms the time around them including what preceded them.

David Burkett

#8. Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Madeline Kahn

#9. Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.

Irving Fisher

#10. We were like two atoms in one molecule, hydrogen and oxygen. Both explosive alone, but the source of everything when we came together.

Trevor D. Richardson

#11. I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

Jeffrey Lewis

#12. How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing ... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff."
"Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

James Patterson

#14. If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.

David Zaslav

#15. Plant
it
It will sprout
But forget about the rustic festivities
For the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal through
the compact generations

Jean Cocteau

#16. If he could smell the pre-spice mass, that meant the gasses deep under the sand were nearing explosive pressure.

Frank Herbert

#17. We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.

Asger Jorn

#18. The false alarm was the result of the explosive amplifying effects of a hyper-information society when fed sensitive news.

Liu Cixin

#19. What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Matthew Pearl

#20. Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

Colin Firth

#21. Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

Sharon Stone

#22. Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

Bob Taft

#23. Debt ... that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Margaret Atwood

#24. For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

Jacques Ellul

#25. Coinman lets out another legendary explosive from his hindquarters!

Pawan Mishra

#26. A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?

David Foster Wallace

#27. I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.

Marc Maron

#28. Explosive bifurcation is the sudden transition that wrenches the system out of one order, and into another.

Wally Lamb

#29. Wraps that up then, right? Praise Allah and pass the high explosive.

Marcus Luttrell

#30. Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food.

Hillary Frank

#31. When new students tried an experiment that was particularly successful in terms of explosive force, the result was often a cross between a major factory refit and a game of Hunt-the-other-Kidney.

Terry Pratchett

#32. Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#33. We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.

Jayme K.

#34. We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Joseph P. Farrell

#35. To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.

Ruth Harris

#36. 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

#37. Potential is not what you have accomplished or what people think you are capable of; potential is embracing the explosive dream God has put inside of you. It

Joshua Chase

#38. It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.

Andy Weir

#39. The memoirist's job is not to add explosive whammies on every page, but to help the average person come in.

Mary Karr

#40. Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

Eugene Field

#41. When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.

Harry Browne

#42. Owen rolled his eyes. You call out a guy's name once while enjoying an explosive orgasm as a woman fucks you in the ass, and she just won't let it rest.

Olivia Cunning

#43. Liquid nitrogen," said Olaf. "Try not to shoot them." "Really cold?" "Really explosive.

Peter Clines

#44. Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that made the early 1990s its worth crisis period since the early Depression.

Mike Davis

#45. 'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#46. I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive.

David W. Earle

#47. There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

Alice Munro

#48. 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

#49. They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

Rana Dasgupta

#50. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical:

Liu Cixin

#51. What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.

Simon Morden

#52. 'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride!

Antony Starr

#53. Whenever the degraded majority and the promoted minority came into conflict (and there were plenty of opportunities for this, starting with the distribution of food) the results were explosive.

Viktor E. Frankl

#54. From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

David Suzuki

#55. There is explosive power in virtue.

Corrie Ten Boom

#56. In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

Paul Farmer

#57. Shi-va is the centripetal force that holds existence together; Shakti is the centrifugal force that gives rise to the explosive diversity of existence. In

Sadhguru

#58. Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower.

Yann Martel

#59. Hillbilly culture at the time (and maybe now) blended a robust sense of honor, devotion to family, and bizarre sexism into a sometimes explosive mix.

J.D. Vance

#60. Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training."
"Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

Richelle Mead

#61. Bombs on my backpack lunchbox full of fivestar crackers pockets loaded with rockets im gonna spit fireworks explosive rhymes connected like judas belt here comes my ride a mother rocket fly so high reach and bursts into the night sky

Patrick Cruz

#62. Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

Thomas Huxley

#63. Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Herbert Hoover

#64. Identity has been such an explosive territory for me ... so hard, so painful at times.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#65. They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.

Margaret Atwood

#66. Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can.

Howard Tayler

#67. I like the sprints so much because it's very explosive, very aggressive, and quite physical sometimes as well. On top of that you've got the speed, so it's a big adrenaline rush coming into the sprints all the time. I love that bit!

Magnus Backstedt

#68. I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.

Jon Foreman

#69. Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can't do that. Night in and night out, you're playing some of the best point guards in the world. That's something I'm continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive.

Trey Burke

#70. The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks
especially with cranks ... Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.

David Lloyd George

#71. Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#72. The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely.

Seth Green

#73. Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it. Renunciation confers an infinite power.

Emil M. Cioran

#74. we have the Word without the Spirit, we tend to "dry up"; if we have the Spirit without the Word, we tend to "blow up"; if we have both Spirit and Word, we tend to "grow up" and "fire up." But when each is properly joined in common union, there is explosive power to be had.

R.T. Kendall

#75. I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Victoria Abril

#76. A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

#77. Jody screamed at him: a high, explosive, unintelligible expulsion of pure inhuman frustration
a Hendrix high note sampled and sung by a billion suffering souls in Hell's own choir.

Christopher Moore

#78. Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, Explosive Displays of Authority, Sport and Nutrition Against Impotance.

Helen Oyeyemi

#79. Explosive blessings are coming my way. This is my declaration.

Joel Osteen

#80. This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.

Jaggi Vasudev

#81. When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

Emile Zola

#82. I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

Emma Bonino

#83. In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.

Marshall McLuhan

#84. The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

Gary Locke

#85. Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

Joe Gayton

#86. His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

Hannah Arendt

#87. When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

Orhan Pamuk

#88. How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

Robert Plant

#89. You need to get ready because I have explosive blessings coming your way.

Joel Osteen

#90. I don't always match up with guys like Dwight Howard or Andrew Bynum, but when I do, those guys are a challenge. Dwight, for example, is quick, explosive, and strong all in one.

Kris Humphries

#91. Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.

Fabio Capello

#92. In other words, eventually through this practice we can begin to experience feelings as feelings - impersonal phenomena as opposed to feelings in the form of explosive dramas of "I, me, and mine." Feeling is the key to the present moment. It anchors us in experience.

Michael Stone

#93. Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Og Mandino

#94. The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden.

Andy Stanley

#95. Like a summer storm, the ferment quickly passed,moving from explosive turmoil to exhausted calm in a few seconds.

Dennis Vickers

#96. Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

Bruce Campbell

#97. The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. But there's no doubting he's an extreme controller. What happens when a controller comes up against someone who's out of control? The combination could be explosive.

J.P. Delaney

#98. We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

Kevin B. Rollins

#99. Caleb tossed him an explosive and Japhet lunged to catch it before it hit the ground. He glared but Caleb didn't notice. Instead, he started to whistle I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier as he made his way down the left side of the tracks, laying bombs at intervals.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#100. I can't get enough of you," he said. "You're like oxygen. I crave you, I need you, I can't live without you." "Oxygen's explosive," I teased. "It most definitely is," he said

J. Kenner