Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Donna Air

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

Donald Miller

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

Dalai Lama

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

Cole Younger

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

Leslie Mann

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Max von Sydow

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Albert Einstein

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

Haley Barbour

I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.

John Lewis Gaddis

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

Edward Bond

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

Haley Barbour

It looks like Hiroshima is what it looks like,

Harry S Truman

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm the Hiroshima of love.