Exploded Quotations

One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane.

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.

One of their sealing guns exploded and he severely damaged his hand.

One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.

When the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

Online shopping just exploded this year. People are now finally comfortable with online shopping -- it finally happened.

He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the universe fail built up and exploded creating him.

When they hit it, it exploded and burned much more brightly than a normal bus, moving in the direction of a tank.

We talked about scoring in the first inning because we realize how important it is for us. We exploded out, and made a statement immediately. We couldn't quite finish it, but we did get to play everybody. Emily (Turner) wasn't as sharp as she has been, but she was still in total control except for one pitch.

He exploded down the stretch for a very convincing win.

Jo really exploded in the last nine or 10 games.

Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.

I saw a flash out of my right eye, then everything just exploded around us,

Steve Martin exploded through 'Saturday Night Live,' ... What you have now is Comedy Central, a ready vehicle that's helping the country-hick humor on one hand and giving a guy like Dane Cook a platform on the other.

Manatee County real estate has exploded in the last three years.

I think this is a very significant moment in Brazilian history. The gay movement has exploded and there's a real shift in people's understanding of homophobia. The media is finally catching up,

I think that was a great sign. Maurice looked like he wanted the ball. He took pretty good shots; he was confident. He exploded with the ball on one drive, it was unbelievable. ... Maurice Ager played like the All-American player he is.

I think we're in the process of correcting the pretty much one-way market action of the past couple of weeks, where we came off of those climactic lows and exploded to the upside.

It felt like a bomb exploded inside my body, pretty much. And not a small bomb like an M-80 firecracker. I just hope I never feel that again.

Truck sales were just phenomenal. They just exploded like nothing I've ever seen before.

We didn't really know until now if we had captured them. For all we knew, they could have just exploded on impact.

We haven't really had any game where we've just exploded in the running attack,

Mexico has never exploded socially because at times of economic crisis, these valves (migration to the United States) relieve some of the pressure.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air

Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination.

We didn't quit in the first game and exploded for four runs in the seventh. But we came out a little flat in game two and couldn't get anything going.

When a police party tried to stop the car bomber, he exploded the vehicle. We had definite information about it.

The fact that ... this situation exploded as a result of this young man being killed unarmed has called the nation's attention to this, ... But people here in Cincinnati have known that this has been a problem.

When we have standardized rules, everybody will benefit from it. There really is no uniformity right now and one of the problems with poker is that it has exploded to the point where more and more of these tournaments are sprouting up. We need to get them all on the same page.

We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

During this time of the year, our shamrock-shaped Smiley cookies are extremely popular. Additionally, we anticipate online sales of shamrock cookies to be strong. Our online Smiley cookie sales have really exploded in the last two months. We've shipped Smiley cookies to all 50 states. It's a great way to make someone's day.

Devon was tough to match up against inside. We struggled to finish for a while. Corey was the one who could finish by getting to the basket. He exploded to the hoop. It it tough to match up with a kid who has that strength.

We felt at halftime we were in pretty good shape. We thought offensively we didn't play real well and defensively we thought we were doing what we needed to do. They just exploded (in the third quarter). With all the weapons they have, they can explode in a hurry. There was nothing we could do.

While the result was a loss, we didn't beat ourselves. Instead, we were beaten by good hitting. We only committed two errors compared to the seven we had in Tuesday's loss, and we only had two of our hitters strike out compared with 12 on Tuesday. We were in the game until it exploded in the fifth.

What was not on the national radar screen has exploded onto television screens, ... We know now that the faces of poverty are black and brown, painful and anguished. Let this nation rise up to eliminate poverty and the faces of poverty vanish from the American scene.

We had played some tough games lately and this one, where our offense just exploded when we really needed, was way overdue.

Offensively we had runners on all game. But, we couldn't get that key hit until we exploded for 5 runs in the sixth inning.

Some people date the first debates about information technology and ethics to the 1950s, but the field really exploded in the 1990s.

Two rockets exploded in area last night at about 9 p.m. but fortunately left no casualties.

Ross (Robinson) is insane! Once, when we were recording here, he threw a potted plant at me. It exploded on the wall over my head and the dirt went in my mouth. It was awesome.

Sanderson's got a quick release, a quick shot. When he came in, he went to his forehand. I exploded over there. He shot it about an inch over my pad, a good move. He's got quick hands, a lot of speed.

This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact, ... The device has similarities to the device that exploded in Brixton with terrible consequences last Saturday.

This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact. The device has similarities to the device that exploded in Brixton with terrible consequences last Saturday.

Tammy ... woke up without her legs 10 days after a rocket-propelled grenade exploded in her lap as she flew her helicopter.

Everybody saw it. He came out and exploded the first play of the game. He got a touchdown and that set everything off the right way, the way it's supposed to be.

It used to be a little secret. There'd be maybe 50 people a month who would try to go down it. And then all of a sudden it exploded and it was thousands.

No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.

The next thing I knew, it was all over the state. It's amazing how this one little request exploded into a blessing from everybody wanting them to have a part of home.

It sounded like a plow scraping the road. Nothing exploded or anything. I heard the crunching coming through the trees.

He stayed in that lane just absolutely flying down the hill. I just happened to notice the car and he just blew right by. I looked in my side mirror. I saw the silver car. Literally, I saw him for a second and then it just exploded because he hit (Mallon) dead on.

They are very athletic. They sure exploded in the third quarter. We scored four points. The biggest difference was their aggressive defense. That third quarter was a nightmare. I'll go home and dream about it and wake up in a sweat.

All three bombs on the London Underground system actually exploded within seconds of each other, at 8:50 in the morning,

The fire escaped the barrel and the conditions were such, very windy, very hot, very dry, that the fire just literally exploded and took off.

The capital markets have exploded in terms of size and willingness to take on risk ... it puts an underlying floor on value.

These kinds of content experiences are going to explode, the way the Internet exploded 10 years ago. But it's got to be done in a way that the mainstream consumer is going to get it. One step is having a technology company like Intel pull those pieces together.

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world

It's a little concerning. Fantasy football has exploded so much; I wonder if it will become a fad that will quickly burn out. I'm sure that won't happen, but it's in the back of my mind.

There was no explosion of any device, ... There were containers of condensed milk in there -- metal cans. Those exploded and the tires exploded. That's what people heard.

It's just exploded over the past 10 years.

We're very pleased to have IBM as a major sponsor, ... The acceptance of the OSGi Service Platform has exploded over the last year, with framework developers, device manufacturers, and service providers releasing OSGi enabled products and services. IBM has made significant contributions to the success of the OSGi Alliance.

We just took it to them and got them in foul trouble. We got some big three's from Jacqueline and some big shots from Sara. We just exploded on offense and were patient.

He posted up well and they went to a box-and-one on him. He was working too hard to get open and I told him, ?Settle down, we'll get you open off screens.' Then we started running our man offense and that was getting other people open so he didn't have to score. We got other people in the flow and exploded the middle of their box-and-one.

All of that was a toxic political brew and ultimately it exploded in his face.

It fell from a 10 story building and exploded in front of me.