Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristin Cast

I think 'House of Night' blew up the way it did because it offered so many people a fantasy that they can be... vampires are very alluring.

William M. Thackeray

So he sighed and pined and ogled,And his passion boiled and bubbled,Till he blew his silly brains out,And no more was by it troubled.

William M. Thackeray

So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled.

Joanna Sikes

So he did this weaving for his mother and he put stained glass in it, flat glass and loved the way the light played with it. He actually melted some flat glass and used a lead pipe and blew a bubble and that was the beginning.

I. Stone

My feeling was, they're going to love the drumming, but they're not going to want to talk. But they blew us away because they started talking. A few weeks into it, we had one session where there was no drumming and we talked the whole time.

Jim Johnson

None of this was planned by me, which makes it so special. All I did was make sure J-Mac was suited up and into the game in those last minutes. What blew me away was how all his team members kept feeding him the ball; they all wanted the night to be J-Mac's.

Penny Reynolds

No one outside of Vegas has ever won. In other words, we blew away the Vegas casinos.

Deepak Chopra

My grandfather took me and my brother to the roof of his house, ... He took out his rifle and he blew rounds into the sky for ten minutes to celebrate. Then he took his bugle out and he blasted the whole neighborhood with his bugle, he was so thrilled about his son. Then he took us to the circus, and then he took us to the movie 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.'

E. Housman

From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Zhang Yimou

Love that can be explained is not love.

Debbie Roth

My daughter's pretty upset about the moving. It's hard to explain it to a 7-year-old.

Hicham Guerrouj

My father told me it was not a job, that I wouldn't make a living at tennis, ... The toughest part was trying to explain to him that I could be the first one from Morocco to do it. But he didn't want me to play. We didn't talk for a year. That was when I knew I couldn't fail. I had to show him it was the right decision. It was a great motivation.

D. James

I can't explain what happened. I really don't know what to say.

Grant Laman

I can't explain the misses. That never happens. But something was on our side and we pulled it out.

Steve Ford

I can't explain that. I'm not disappointed. I'm really just a little embarrassed.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see

Yelena Isinbayeva

I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.

Chuck Davis

I can't explain it. We've been through a lot together. I'm just proud of those guys.