#explode

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#explode #inspirational #writing #art

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#jackets #many #one-size-fits-all #place #put

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters. ↗

— Sean Bean

#classic #exploded #find #future #hopefully

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#athletes #competing #country #difficult #even

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#aspen #cake #exploded #favorite #had

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#adopted #allowed #around #being #explode

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#anytime #because #exploded #free #i

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode? ↗

— Langston Hughes

#does #dream #dry #explode #happens

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #american #caves #enmity #exploded

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#canon #come #explode #generation #next