Quotes with dynamite

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• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  ― B. B. King
  American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

  ― Vance Havner
  American writer
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• I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

  ― Alva Myrdal
  Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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• The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

  ― Gerald W. Johnson
  American journalist, editor, essayist, historian and biographer (1890 - 1980)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• civilization
• destruction
• diabolical
• literature
• impossible
• version

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