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Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'. -- Thomas Pynchon
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. -- Patrick Carney
I was pissed off about a lot of things...so much shitty rock 'n' roll that angered me, and Pussy Galore was kicking against that. With the Blues Explosion, there was some of that, but now I was into celebrating it. -- Jon Spencer
The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice. -- Sheena Iyengar
China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand. -- Mukesh Ambani
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. -- Sally Ride
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. -- Thucydides
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. -- Boris Pasternak
There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet. -- David Niven
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive. -- Adam Ant
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. -- Ray Bradbury
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. -- Alvin Toffler
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. -- Germaine Greer
In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on. -- Si Robertson
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. -- Sally Ride
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. -- Wilfred Burchett
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. -- Wole Soyinka
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. -- Richard Dawkins
With my channel, and what people associate with Internet, most people think it goes viral, you become this huge thing super quick. I never had an explosion or a huge thing. It's just been something that has progressively been growing. It's been building. -- PewDiePie
The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth. -- Joe Rogan
When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion. -- David Christian
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. -- Robin Williams
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. -- Cory Booker
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past. -- Matt Ridley
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted. -- Peter Benchley
The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
The digital explosion has been so explosive. -- Tina Brown
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion -- Ellen Glasgow
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Everything went great right up to the explosion. -- Andy Weir
I want an explosion the size of Cleveland. -- Joel Silver
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion. -- Emile Capouya
We are about to have a racial explosion. -- Malcolm X
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. -- James Broughton
The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary? -- Russell M. Nelson
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. -- Jessica Savitch
Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash. -- Alfred W. Crosby
Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing. -- Radhanath Swami
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system. -- Jack Kemp
A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK. -- Sophie Kinsella
Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point. -- Jim Rohn
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. -- Alvin Toffler
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. -- Octave Mirbeau
If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion. -- Leo Szilard
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. -- Jim Harrison
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion. -- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. -- Tony Blair
Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion. -- Demetri Martin
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion. -- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion. -- Slash
The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away... -- Jerry Spinelli
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. -- Andrew Young
Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion. -- Aaron Cohen
I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American [food]. -- Anthony Bourdain
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. -- Neil Postman
â??The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. -- Octave Mirbeau
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. -- Art Hoppe
The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasnÂ´t gone out yet. -- Whitney Balliett
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites. -- Robert Cailliau
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it. -- Robert Barron
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting. -- Hari Kunzru
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. -- Alan Kay
The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were. -- Lemmy Kilmister
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors. -- Roel Reine
There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses. -- Dean Ambrose
I identify [myself] as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule. -- Patton Oswalt
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I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything. -- Robin Quivers
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything -- Robin Quivers
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery. -- Nicholas G. Carr
Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion. -- Richard Armour
Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things. -- William Kristol
Artemis: Holly, how did you find me? Holly: Oh, I saw a huge explosion and wondered: now, who could that be? -- Eoin Colfer
I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste. -- Bridget Everett
A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people. -- Grace Lee Boggs
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. -- Janet Fitch
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated. -- Sarah Bernhardt
As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate. -- Laura Huxley
Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer. -- Steven Soderbergh
I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom. -- Miguel Angel Silvestre
Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective. -- Eric Holmes
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary. -- Marcel Duchamp
Anytime my magic involved fire and didn't destroy something of cause an explosion, I considered it a victory.My victories have been rare. -- Suzanne Johnson
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb. -- Janet Fitch
The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors. -- Maria Bartiromo
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion? -- John Tanton
He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it. -- Nathanael West
The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black. -- Charli XCX
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion. -- Alan Furst
Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities. -- Reid Hoffman
Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off. -- Robert Redford
Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted. -- Nick Harkaway
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion. -- Albert Pike
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect. -- Salman Rushdie
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. -- Bashar al-Assad
Let's just say I understand betrayal. And having been where he is, I know the explosion to come. Trust me. "?Duck' won't quite cover it. (Sin) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion. -- Terence McKenna
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition. -- Fred Upton
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. -- Margery Allingham
Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other. -- Roddy Piper
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs. -- Dylan Thomas
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs -- Dylan Thomas
Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens. -- Rajneesh
I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters. -- Norman Jewison
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage. -- Alexander Haig
I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me. -- Ann Aguirre
It still feels unreal sometimes. It all happened so fast, like an explosion you know. But I am really hyped about the success of 'Animals' and 'Wizard'. -- Martin Garrix
A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene. -- Steven Soderbergh

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