#explosive

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#buildings #burning #destroyed #explosives #fires

I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude is everything. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #attitude

When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete with colored ball bearings standing in for neutrons, protons, and on the outside, arranged on arcs of fine wire, electrons. Turning the key on the side made the electrons move, what she’d thought were ball bearings actually finely crafted spheres of glass that sparked with color. A brilliant, thoughtful, wonderful gift for a physics major. “Why magnesium?” she asked, identifying the atomic number of the light metal. His hand on her jaw, his mouth on her own. “Because it’s beautifully explosive, just like my X. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#explosive #hawke #lovers #sienna #beauty

Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food. ↗

— Hillary Frank

#hillary-frank #i-can-t-tell-you #mexican-food #wrestler #food

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#always #birthdays #blows #cake #effects

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#explosive #i #i think #issue #liberties

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#background #both #comes #explosive #father

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #content #existing #explosives #feel

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#big #complete #explosive #game #games

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. ↗

— Tom Waits

#atomic bomb #bikini #bomb #explosive #first