Quotes about Shockwave

Albuquerque Journal

When bomb bursts … fall flat on stomach. Cover face with arms; close eyes tightly…cover body with a few sheets of newspaper, a board, raincoat, or a torn strip of awning.

At the time most people had very limited knowledge of the effect of nuclear weapons. Parts of the government wanted the public to think that survivability of a nuclear attack at the time was much more likely and probable than the reality that then existed. At the behest of these government agencies, advice like this was typical of what the media were publishing at the time.

Fritz Kreisler

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Roger Bacon

From the flaming and flashing of certain igneous mixtures and the terror inspired by their noise, wonderful consequences ensue which no one can guard against or endure … when a quantity of this powder, no bigger than a man’s finger, be wrapped up in a piece of parchment and ignited, it explodes with a blinding flash and a stunning noise. If a larger quantity were used, or the case was made of more solid material, the explosion would be much more violent, and the flash and noise altogether unbeatable.

This is one of the earliest English language descriptions of gunpowder.

Vittorio Mussolini

I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center, and the group opened up like a flowering rose. It was most entertaining.

Joel Silver

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

Jimmy Smits

Celebrity hits like a bomb.

Rajiv Gandhi

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

Terry Pratchett

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Explosions are not comfortable.

Seanan McGuire

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

Jamie Hyneman

There are times when we're testing an actual explosion, and then there are times when we blow stuff up just because we can.

Shockwave Quotes