Explosive Event Quotes

Metro Station, it was a crazy experience, because I felt like we just blew up really fast.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

We were fortunate to be there a day or two before 'the big bang' and then we got the heck out of town.

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.