Bomb Quotes

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew

American, Choice, Choose

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

Experience, Match, Fatigue

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.
Gus Van Sant

Might, Rules, Surprise

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen

Music, Home, Stupid

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
David Wilkerson

Fear, Greatest, Happen

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
Edward Teller

Real, Regrets, Speaking

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Rosanne Cash

Car, Sick, Another

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.
David Letterman

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Enough, Brave, Afraid

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
Tama Janowitz

Good, Long, After

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen Ambrose

War, Hard, Made

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.
Jeremy Renner

Long, Down, After

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

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.
Evel Knievel

Power, End, Country

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
Benny Hill

Time, Two, Against

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

Actually, Stuff, Pick

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
Tom Waits

Woman, Sight, Island

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
Michael Franti

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.
Melissa Rosenberg

Money, Great, Long

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
Simon Le Bon

Dance, Band, Drops

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.
Ray Comfort

Time, Future, Care

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.
Bobby Jindal

Great, Today, Someone

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
Martin Sheen

Generation, Brought

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
George Wald

Else, Keep, Somebody

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
Jim Fowler

Looks, Hit, Haiti

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.
Marlon Wayans

Humor, Hope, Business

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
Eric Holder

Enemy, Down, Trying

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.
Joe Pantoliano

Thought, Making, Fugitive

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

Time, Power, Past

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Joseph Rotblat

Death, Science, Technology

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