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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. -- Terry Pratchett
I am not free because I can be exploded anytime. -- Jenny Holzer
My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude. -- Emeril Lagasse
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others. -- Eddie Izzard
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being. -- Bob Brown
No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded. -- Ryan Holmes
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything. -- Dave Winer
I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood. -- Richard Griffiths
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin
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. -- James Buchan
I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards. -- Alan Cumming
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands. -- Haile Gebrselassie
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.' -- Charles Duhigg
The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue. -- Traian Basescu
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. -- John Varvatos
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. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life. -- Sylvester Stallone
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. -- Stephen Kinzer
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there. -- Jason Mraz
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading. -- Alfred Nobel
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know. -- Junot Diaz
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
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. -- John Piper
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. -- Michael Eric Dyson
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. -- Rob Sheffield
I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean. -- Danny Pino
And then the world exploded. -- Stephen King
It was the day my grandmother exploded. -- Iain Banks
History is a record of exploded ideas. -- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded? -- Victor Borge
The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset. -- Geoffrey Madan
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. -- Haile Gebrselassie
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies. -- Ayn Rand
Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for. -- Saul Bellow
Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either. -- Ernst Moritz Arndt
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. -- William Golding
I think Koenigsegg is Swedish for: Oh no, my head has just exploded! -- Jeremy Clarkson
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded) -- Albert Einstein
Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that. -- Don Nickles
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball. -- Douglas Adams
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded. -- Dean Koontz
Voldemort's fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. -- J. K. Rowling
Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. -- Terry Pratchett
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. -- Ludwig von Mises
It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow. -- Bruce Friedrich
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. -- Elliott Abrams
Last night my shadow exploded into hundreds of fluttering black birds, foreshadowing my love taking flight under the cover of camouflage. -- Jarod Kintz
You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass! -- Rachel Caine
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids. -- Yukio Mishima
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot. -- Douglas Adams
Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.What did he die of?Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded! -- Oscar Wilde
I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by. -- Preston Sturges
I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off. -- Anthony Kiedis
I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love. -- A-Trak
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits -- Frederick Crews
Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for? -- Olaf Stapledon
Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded. -- Ilona Andrews
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth. -- George Perkins Marsh
If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake. -- Harlan Coben
At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl's Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check "? ironically enough "? the reactor's safety. -- Mark Lynas
Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded. -- Craig Kilborn
[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity." -- Edward Snowden
I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion. -- Kristin Cashore
A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory. -- Albert Einstein
Talon glanced around the loft. It looked as if a bottle of Pepto-Bismol had exploded, or the Cat in the Hat had come for a visit.' (Talon) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard. -- John Cage
And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded. -- Ilona Andrews
Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself. -- Jennifer Egan
The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times. -- Marcia Angell
An English university 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. -- Adam Smith
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball. -- Douglas Adams
You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway. -- Werner Herzog
You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing. -- Bill Nye
And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There's something I don't trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that." -- David Wong
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned. -- Andy Goldsworthy
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded? -- Sherman Alexie
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day. -- Neil Gaiman
Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness. -- Ian Fleming
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques. -- Jay Michaelson
I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. -- Charlie Sheen
Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing. -- Maggie Stiefvater
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. -- David Whyte
I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think,before it really exploded as a big movement. -- Jill Stein
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters. -- Sean Bean

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