Atomic Bomb Project

Famous quotes containing the words atomic bomb, atomic, bomb and/or project:

    “The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.”
    —Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974)

    “Lincoln said, “With malice toward none and with charity to all.” Nowadays they say, “Think the way I do or I’ll bomb the daylights out of you.””
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    “Although I mean it, and project the meaning
    As hard as I can into its brushed-metal surface,
    It cannot, in this deteriorating climate, pick up
    Where I leave off.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)