Atomic Bomb Project

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

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

    “Take adultery or theft.
    Merely sins.
    It is evil who dines on the soul,
    stretching out its long bone tongue.
    It is evil who tweezers my heart,
    picking out its atomic worms.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.”
    —Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

    “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)