When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. Ernest Hemingway
A rhyme's ... a barrel of dynamite. A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smoulders, the rhyme explodes – and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. Vladimir Mayakovsky
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more. Alice Hoffman
Reaching out for that hand to hold. Reaching out for the Star. Reaching out for the Star that explodes. Reaching out for Mama. Kate Bush
You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. Laurell K. Hamilton
Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes. Lamar Alexander