Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Conor Oberst

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

Daniel Radcliffe

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

David Lloyd

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.

We were looking for one of us to have a good lane to bomb the puck,

We've got to have a guy that can obviously do some things other than try to hit bombs for us. You have such a variety of pitchers in high school ... you've got to be able to handle a lot of different people and know what's going on around you and keep people in the right spots.

We've gone a long way to discounting a favorable outcome -- you're getting the rally that should have taken place the day the bombs fell. The real question is how much longer are the hedge funds going to let the market go before they put on short positions again. Valuations, North Korea -- you don't hear about this stuff anymore, but it's still out there.

What you do with a bombing campaign is bring a whole country rallying around its radical leaders.

And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood.

We did lots of free ones for friends and people in church and whoever. They just started performing so many times, and we were bombarded with requests.

Lisa Ling

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Bill Joy

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

James A. Baldwin

There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

There is a safety factor here, ... This is a bombing indictment, and we just don't need people in there, trampling in the woods. Any place that we're looking at has potential evidence.

There is a possibility that the person with the bomb died on the bus, there is a possibility they left the bomb, ... We're not ruling anything out, we're not ruling anything in.

We tried doing a number of things to slow them down in the final minute. They were just bombing shots. Thank God we had a big lead.

We didn't want to create another opening-day effect, especially for private landowners who might have been tempted to consider posting their ground if they were constantly bombarded with anglers.

We have received six wounded people from the bombing and they say that three civilians ... had died,

We have raised a lot of money. But we're still helping people with disaster relief efforts for the Oklahoma City bombing -- and that was six years ago.

Octave Mirbeau

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

Antonin Artaud

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Robert Francis

We don't have any evidence at this point of a bomb or missile,

We're getting tied up in too many things. We need to get that bunch that bombed the World Trade Center first.

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.

What's interesting is it's rare to break new highs in an industry that's pretty much bombed this year. Many stocks go sideways. This one is moving up.

Unless Dubai is willing to impose restrictions on what Iran can buy, there's no hope of stopping the Iranian bomb program.

Hanan Ashrawi

We're being shelled and bombed and assassinated and killed. Our homes are being destroyed, our children traumatized. Our livelihoods, our institutions, our infrastructure totally demolished.

Leon Askin

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

We have no political agenda. It's the bomb imagery we objected to.

Jacques Chirac

there are currently no bombs capable of functioning on the French rail network.

We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do.

Ariel Sharon

What 6,000 bombs (attacks by Palestinians) didn't do to my home and my village the government did.