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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. -- Norman Mailer
(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.) Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it's a bat cave. (Chris) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. -- Cory Booker
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. -- Frank Robinson
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you. -- Barbara Johnson
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... -- John Green
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. -- Paul Fussell
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan) -- Bill Shankly
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. -- Brendan Behan
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. -- Erich Maria Remarque
I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay? -- John Green
A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well. -- Sebastian Junger
For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off. -- Terry Teachout
People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade. -- David Gower
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 success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before. -- Thomas Vinterberg
Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar. -- Luis Bunuel
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. -- Ralph Abernathy
I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody. -- Joe Jamail
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak. -- George Orwell
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. -- Peter Scott
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum. -- Karen Duffy
A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'. -- Mark Grace
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. -- Jack Handey
I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two. -- Stephen Lang
I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line. -- Robert Mankoff
What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off. -- Neill Blomkamp
The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander. -- Eric Ludy
I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding. -- Jeffrey McDaniel
Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today. -- Johnny Carson
You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself. -- Paullina Simons
Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade. -- Brandon Boyd
The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use. -- George Orwell
I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles. -- Ice T
I believe when you're stuck in one spot for too long it's best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump"¦and pray. -- Robyn Davidson
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live. -- Criss Jami
...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off. -- Christopher Moore
Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute. -- Mia James
Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers. -- Anthony Horowitz
You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it. -- Shannon L. Alder
I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. -- John Green
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to. -- John Green
Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.... -- Allen Tate
Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman. -- Rick Riordan
Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her... -- David Crosby
Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete. -- Rand Paul

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