Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Young

This is a true victory for a more rational nuclear policy. The proposed weapon, more than 70 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, would have caused unparalleled collateral damage.

Nigel Hamilton

The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.

You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated IEDs. They're using shaped charges and anti-tank mines stacked together. They're using 500-pound bombs that can destroy any armored vehicle. They're using these so-called swarming attacks, firing several RPG rounds at one lightly armored vehicle.

Octave Mirbeau

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

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.

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.

Michael Koryta

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.

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.

Dan Uggla

The only hit I've gotten off him my whole life was a bomb in college and a bomb today.

First the noise is incredible. Then there was a lull while (attackers) tried to hear you, then the bombs came down again. I would crouch and think that, if I ever got out of this alive, I'd never let the small problems of life bother me.

Graham Chapman

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

Bombs could be falling on the White House and that's what she would say,

Suketu Mehta

Bombay is a city in which everything is on broad, public display. Nothing is hidden.

Graham Moore

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.

Before I went I guess some groups were bombing areas. So in that respect I was a little nervous about going and some people had pulled out of going on the trip, but I made the decision that --- and a lot of other people did too ?- we were going to go and represent our country, and it ended up being a really good experience.

We were finding bombs and tracking devices all the time. So I was glad to not get on that plane. Handling gas around here is a whole lot safer.

We've had quite a few flops, actually. It's you're going to get into this, you have to expect some flops. We've had some sites that have bombed completely, and you have to say, 'OK, that's a loss,' and let go.

We've gone through this shock period immediately after the bombing when we all reacted simultaneously to condemn it. But now many people are confused as to how to deal with it.

Mike Mitchell

We also have a Bomb Laden and a Hot and Proud patriotic sauce. The Bomb Laden bottle has a turban on the cap and the Hot and Proud has an American flag on top.

We all should be very nervous. If this is how they respond to a disaster that they know is happening, or know is coming a hurricane how are they going to respond to a dirty bomb that they don't know? I think the system is broken.

Mike Birbiglia

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

Tom Fitzgerald

Coming in and getting that bomb dropped on us was heartfelt, of course. I am so grateful for Mike O'Connell to give me an opportunity to live out a childhood dream -- to come to Boston and put on the Bruins sweater. On the flip side, I feel responsible for him losing his job.

David Stern

Did you say, 'Let's not bomb embassies, innocent people could be killed?'

William Perry

What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can use their weapons to threaten South Korea, to threaten Japan . . . with every prospect that they will sell some of that plutonium and nuclear bombs to the highest bidder so they might end up in American cities as well.

Larry Johnson

This was a bomb on board, without a doubt. You do not get these kinds of catastrophic mid-air explosions in airliners without an explosive on board.

Paul Watson

I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.

Far more people died and far greater damage to (economic growth) took place in the floods. After the floods people were back in the malls. It seemed to have little impact on Bombay and I'd hope this would have a small impact on Delhi.