#explosion

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland. ↗

— Joel Silver

#explosion #i #size #want

She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#explosions #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez #mechanics

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. ↗

— James Broughton

#joy #poetry #quietest

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bomb #brains #culture #deep #deep space

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#any #checked #debris #elements #every

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#fact #gets #interstate #major #media

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#explosion #i #saw #things #understood

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#ancestors #been #both #business #come

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ↗

— Arthur Hoppe

#explosion #population #right #right time #time

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#entrepreneurs #explosion #i #support #system