Bombs Quotations

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

On the morning of March 2, a terrorist attack was committed not far from the U.S. Consulate General in Karachi. Two car bombs were set off, killing and injuring a number of people. There are no Russian citizens among the casualties.

Petrol bombs don't appear by accident, blast bombs do not appear by accident and certainly firearms have to be planned to be produced in the way they were produced.

My life was paralyzed. I work in a white-collar world, and we are not used to bombs ... We were afraid to go to sleep at night.

If they didn't perish in the bombs they are still out there somewhere or have left the country.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

I don't believe anybody can be protected with high confidence from car bombs in urban areas. The Israelis and the British have worked as hard on this problem for years as anybody can. They have not provided an adequate protection for their population against car bombs in urban areas. That's -- that is a very, very difficult threat.

From a distance, We all have enough, And no one is in need,And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease, No hungry mouths to feed - God is watching us, God is watching us, God is watching us, From a distance

Give Quincy credit. We tried to guard him but he makes you pay. He's a terrific player and he hit some big-time bombs today.

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

I don't understand how you can have a fair trial in this atmosphere of insecurity, with bombs going off.

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

I believe that I am recognized as an expert in these various industries, ... Investing in Vice, The Recession-Proof Portfolio of Booze, Bets, Bombs and Butts.

I appeal to all involved to avoid use of bombs and violence and really get back to the negotiating table.

I had lived and worked in London, and was familiar with the Tube stops where the bombs went off,

We've gone a long way to discounting a favorable outcome -- you're getting the rally that should have taken place the day the bombs fell. The real question is how much longer are the hedge funds going to let the market go before they put on short positions again. Valuations, North Korea -- you don't hear about this stuff anymore, but it's still out there.

We've got to have a guy that can obviously do some things other than try to hit bombs for us. You have such a variety of pitchers in high school ... you've got to be able to handle a lot of different people and know what's going on around you and keep people in the right spots.

He is a second-hand car dealer, an electronics expert and his role was to detonate the bombs by cellular phone.

He's a very, very good player. When he wants to hit it long, he just bombs it out there. He's got great hands and putts very well. I don't think he missed a whole lot of putts he had to make, maybe one.

We tossed a few bombs at each other now and then, but that is a side issue for us. We both share a common vision that biometrics are a great way to initiate transactions.

My putting was a real strength for me today. I holed a few bombs for birdies, but I also made all the short ones, and they really count when it comes to adding up your score.

President Bush has dropped the equivalent of 100,000 dirty bombs on America, ... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the president's decision threatens American lives.

Passing through Berlin we were right in the middle of an air raid. Bombs were exploding all around us.

Or are you against law and order, siding with those firing bullets at the police, throwing petrol bombs and blast bombs at police and attacking them?

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

People are looking for improvements there, and that's not something he has great control over, the day-to-day situation in terms of car bombs and sectarian violence.

I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.