Time August 1945 Quotes & Sayings

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. — John Hersey

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. — John Barth

star stays alive as a result of two opposing actions, the fusion at its core forcing it outwards and the gravitational pull keeping it together. She saw it as a balancing act, a tug of war from which a victor eventually emerges, once the fuel for the reactions runs out and the explosions weaken. When gravity gains the upper hand, the celestial body shrinks like a punctured balloon and becomes smaller and smaller. In this way, a star can vanish into nothing. Salander liked black holes. She felt an affinity to them. — David Lagercrantz

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician. — Lita Ford

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. — Leland Stanford

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show. — Richard Kinder