Blowing Up Quotes:

Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Daddy, Monsters, Blowing Up

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

- Dennis Miller

topic: Auto Industry, Blowing Up, Industry

I can't imagine myself blowing up supermarkets!

- Michelle Pfeiffer

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Imagine, Supermarkets, Blowing Up

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

- Pete Townshend

topic: Song, Light, Rocks, Pinball, Encores

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Aunt, Boys, Wizards, Blowing Up

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

- Barack Obama

topic: People, Politics, Innocent, I Have No Patience, Blowing Up

That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch," she (Kat) said. "You know," Angus said, "I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy--" "We're not blowing up my company, Angus," Hale said. "Righto. Carry on, Kitty.

- Ally Carter

topic: Lunch, Saving, Littles, Kitties, Blowing Up

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)

- Francis William Aston

topic: Hope, Science, Men, Infinite Power, Atomic Energy

In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave only a few people on earth-whole cities surviving under domes because we have depleted our natural resources. And often in these movies, for reasons that I question, we have space aliens who are always blowing up Washington, D.C., and the White House.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Country, Years, Cities, Space Aliens, Apocalyptic

The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big' and 'small' because when something happens to you, when you loose something or someone that your really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.

- Dakota Fanning

source: Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”

topic: World, Care, May, Big Things, Blowing Up

Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us…

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Hate, Dirty, Israel, Dirty Work, Diaspora

I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.

- Henry Adams

source: Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.290, Harvard University Press

topic: Suicide, Believe, Men, Blowing Up

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Rush: 'I’m Just Noting the Timing Here'" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

topic: Stupid, Oil, Way, Oil Drilling, Blowing Up

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

- Bobby Helms

topic: Christmas, Fun, Rocks, Jingle Bells, Jingles

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

- Carl Icahn

topic: Able, Factories, Assets, Blowing Up

Be happy when you reach the top: cry, clap your hands, shout to the four winds that you did it, let the wind - the wind is always blowing up there - purify your mind, refresh your tired and sweaty feet, open your eyes, clean the dust from your heart. It feels so good, what was just a dream before, a distant vision, is now part of your life, you did it!

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Dream, Inspiration, Blowing Up

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that

- Vanessa Carlton

topic: Crazy, Nuts, Live Your Life, Blowing Up

When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan.

- Bill Maher

topic: Girl, Suicide, Hurt, Crusades, Ethnic Cleansing

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

- Henry Adams

source: "The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892".

topic: Suicide, Science, Race, Blowing Up

I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

- Paul Craig Roberts

topic: Fall, Engineering, Training, Blowing Up

Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

- Abdallah II

topic: Moving, Home, Needs, Demolition, Blowing Up

The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.

- Matt de la Pena

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Book, Writing, School, Graduate School, Blowing Up

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

- Robert Fripp

topic: Stupid, Blow, People, Short Term, Blowing Up

I can't stop some idiot from crashing into a building or blowing up a bus, I can only be your dad and give you a few pure truths. Number one, duct tape will save your life. Number two, Tupac is alive, but I need you to keep that on the DL because of Suge. And number three, don't be afraid of anything - except the television news because they're lying to you every night.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dad, Lying, Night, Television News, Blowing Up

We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.

- L. Brent Bozell III

topic: Suicide, Real, Israel, Suicide Bombers, Blowing Up

When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to do that. I think you have to be malleable, and that's what makes a truly great model. It's not the perfect lip or the perfect face, it's your own ability to take on a character and that's, I think, something there's a misconception about.

- Michael Flutie

topic: Girl, Character, Thinking, Steven Meisel, Perfect Face

This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

- Denis Leary

source: "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

topic: Funny, New York, Humor, Cranes, Asbestos

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

- Scott D. Anthony

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Long, Labs, Too Much, Pathogens, Blowing Up

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

- Barry Hannah

source: Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

topic: Blowing Up

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Dark, Knowing, Blue, Dark Blue, Seaweed

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

- Howard Blum

topic: Fire, Sea, Spy, Blowing Up

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

- Lukas Haas

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Play, Careers, Blowing Up

Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.

- Steve Aylett

topic: Needs, Looks, Too Late, Blowing Up

A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.” Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.125, Hachette UK

topic: Country, Islands, Issues, Blowing Up

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

- Dick Dale

topic: Father, Player, Guitar, Amplifiers, Guitar Player

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

- Gary Busey

topic: Party, Kids, Dark, Blowing Up, Shadow Side

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

- J. G. Ballard

topic: People, Office, Shells, Bombing, Globalisation

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

- Shirley MacLaine

topic: People, Hollywood, Red, Above And Beyond, Blowing Up

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

- Henry Rollins

topic: People, Village, Way, Blowing Up

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

- Penn Jillette

source: "Beat goes on for YouTube's 'Evolution of Dance' star". Interview with Ryan Osborn and Allison Berger, www.today.com. January 12, 2009.

topic: Beautiful, Successful, Thinking, Blue Collar, Collars

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

- Jean Cocteau

source: Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

topic: Army, Night, Ears, Starry Night, Blowing Up

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Blowing Up

Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Reading, Circles, Space, After Hours, Anti Social

And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

- Michael Thomas Ford

topic: Crazy, Fall, Mean, Fairy Dust, Blowing Up

Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

- Isobelle Carmody

topic: Jobs, Hate, Mean, Using Me, Biological Clock

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

- Michael Chabon

source: Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.42, Open Road Media

topic: Zoos, Animal, Dams, Vandalism, Recklessness

Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

topic: Thinking, Bridges, World, Groaning, Blowing Up

The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

- Stanley Tucci

topic: Running, Kids, Play, Blowing Up

Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.

- Gabriel Campisi

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, Believe, Passion, Playing Make Believe, Just Have Fun

When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.

- Lupe Fiasco

source: "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

topic: School, Thinking, Dna, Gaza, Stealth