Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Radcliffe

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Albert Einstein

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Jim Rice

Whether it's bomb squads, hostage negotiation teams, civil disturbance units, emergency medical service units, fire departments -- you name it and it's going to be on standby or staged for an event like this.

Stella Young

From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.

Raymond Kelly

I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.

Our bombs don't work. But without these agents' hard work, we could very easily have ended up working a bombing fatality.

David Letterman

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

People are looking for improvements there, and that's not something he has great control over, the day-to-day situation in terms of car bombs and sectarian violence.

Over a quarter-million math and science teachers are needed, and it's hard to tell where the pipeline is. That is like a ticking time bomb not just for technology companies, but for business and the U.S. economy.

David Williams

Overwhelming amounts of traffic; we are bombarded all day long.

Charles J. Shields

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

My mom lived off the canal of a river, ... It looked like a bomb went off. I never thought it was going to be that bad. I stayed the night (in Texas), then Monday morning after the storm had gone more up north, we went back thinking it was okay. It took us a long time because of all the traffic that was leaving. Normally, it would take an hour, but it took six hours because of all the evacuees. It took a good 11 or 12 hours to get to Texas, and it usually only takes five.

I wonder if he hears the bombs of the soldiers and their rifles.

Tracey Bregman

Lauren never gave up. She is digging herself out of the bomb shelter, but at the last minute she gets hit in the head with falling debris.

I watched my dad and within a month, he got bombarded with paperwork.

It is a very unfortunate incident. I can confirm that 40 people have died in the bomb blast.

It felt like a bomb exploded inside my body, pretty much. And not a small bomb like an M-80 firecracker. I just hope I never feel that again.

I think he's one of the coolest guys ever to watch. I love everything about him. The way he plays the game. The way he throws the ball. He's not scared of anything. He'll throw three interceptions and go back out there and throw a 50-yard bomb with no fear. He's just fun to watch, and he has a cannon, too.

Harry Reid

President Bush has dropped the equivalent of 100,000 dirty bombs on America, ... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the president's decision threatens American lives.

Our position on this question is clear; NATO must immediately halt the bombing of Yugoslavia as a necessary precondition for solving the Kosovo crisis. The bombing should stop before the Security Council discusses this issue.

Tadatoshi Akiba

Passing on to younger generations the memories and the will of those who suffered the bombing is the most important step for humankind to survive in the 21st century,

I don't think you need to be in there and be bombarded by a lot of visual things around you. I think it should be kind of peaceful.

I don't understand why in the world he'd want to go down there and end his tour of duty in a situation where he could just bomb out. He couldn't bomb out in Wichita.

If a bomb was to go off in this cafe, it would kill Jews and Arabs.

Bob Hope

The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.

Isaac Asimov

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Philip Morrison

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.

Dalai Lama

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected.

The government could cite the bomb as a reason to declare emergency rule.

With the bomb sweeps, we decided it might be counterproductive. People might try to save money by skipping (them).

Steve Erickson

Two subsequent incidents of import established CNN: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, which CNN was the only network to cover as it happened, and the 1991 Gulf War, which CNN chronicled round the clock from a proximity as irresistible as it was alarming, bomb blasts and gunfire lighting up TV screens from coast to coast.