Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was being installed when this whole thing blew up. Some of it is in some of our county buildings and some of it is in our warehouse still.

It was different from McDaniels Mill Road where heavy rains just blew out the pipes. This one has been on the list for a while, and when a county worker went out there, he stopped and inspected the pipes and noticed the erosion. The thought was that if we don't do something now, it would compromise the road.

General Electric was last cycle's story. It was last cycle's story because of natural gas generators. Everything else didn't hurt, but their power generating business is what really blew the doors off everything.

Emile Hirsch

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

John Chaney

something not out of the ordinary and blew it up.

Byron Scott

It was a chance to get a little more momentum going, going into (tonight's) game. And we blew it. That's the bottom line, we just blew it.

It was a blow-out quarter, they did an incredible job. They blew away the consensus (forecast), and first-quarter guidance looks good.

We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them,

This was a case of teenagers being foolish, and it blew up into a horrible nightmare. That doesn't diminish the tragedy, but there was a lack of sophistication in these acts. ... Kids tend to do things and think about them afterward.

Robert Thompson

This turned out to be a story that didn't even have enough traction to compete with the runaway bride, which blew Michael Jackson off the screen for a week and a half.

We got a little tired in the third period and blew the lead. That said, they scored four power-play goals and we shot the tying goal in our own net.

We had a goal of a half-million dollars that second year and as the thing kind of blew up and we realized we were close to a million, it was the seventh or eighth inning and (Red Sox vice president of public affairs) Charles Steinberg called us and said they're donating the last $25,000. The feeling was incredible.

We had a lead in that game and we blew it. We have to learn to pull those games out. ... We're trying to make the playoffs and every point counts. If you miss it by one point, you probably look back at this game.

We just fell apart. We stopped closing out on the shooters in the corner and they just killed us. It blew the game open. The guys just couldn't come back from that.

I understand we blew a big lead. But we played at an unbelievably high level to get that lead. You look at our field goal percentage ... I don't know of any team in the country that's going to play that way for 40 minutes.

The wind blew the scores up a little bit. All our guys were bunched around 75. We needed one person at par or below.

What happened today was (Martin) just blew an enormous hole in the fortress of the cable and broadcast monopoly,

We weren't ready to play. We let the three good Niles players do what they wanted. They blew us out in the first half, but we played better in the third quarter. Remember, Niles is very good.

Brian Billick

I see Steve McNair. I still see Keith Bulluck. I see those safeties and that big offensive line, ... They just kind of fire-cracked it. I don't know if they blew it up.

I've been in games where I had seven, eight runs to work with and blew that. This is a team effort.

We were ready from literally the time the storm blew through. We were ready to go. We just were not given permission to go in.

We had the lead and we blew it. We're trying to make the playoffs and every point counts. If you miss it by one, you'll probably look back at this game, look at all the games we blew, and we've got to stop doing that. We've got to pull them out.

The feather picking in the Orange-winged Amazons has a very strong genetic component. Another effect, and this blew us away, was where the cage was in the room relative to the door.

Boris Said

I'm going to give myself a B-minus. In practice and qualifying I thought I made a lot of progress. But then in the race we got unlucky because we blew a left-front tire right off the bat. Later in the race I spun when I was trying to get by someone-- that was just a rookie mistake, but I managed to save the car and not hit the wall.

Boris Said

I'm going to give myself a B-minus, ... In practice and qualifying I thought I made a lot of progress. But then in the race we got unlucky because we blew a left-front tyre right off the bat. Later in the race I spun when I was trying to get by someone, that was just a rookie mistake, but I managed to save the car and not hit the wall.

In my eyes, we blew this game. We never gave up, but in the end somebody's got to lose.

It's really kind of cool that the company that blew you out had to call you off the bench.

It's tough to say we had a 100 percent chance (at a medal), but with countries moving in and out of the bronze medal place, we definitely had a chance at one of the bronze or silvers. It just didn't happen, unfortunately. But I don't think we can be too upset. We skated good. There weren't any huge mistakes where someone fell down or we totally blew an exchange. With China and Canada, it's tough.

Dad had gone to Gov. Faubus before this whole thing blew up and said, 'Let it go,' but Gov. Faubus wouldn't do it,

Then he blew that, and that's where he is right now.

The next game I blew it on blocking out. So I worked on getting rebounds. That was the goal.

The news hit the tape as a complete surprise and it blew up because it was unexpected and sort of clumsy.

Greg Daniels

Then of course Keri came in and blew me away, ... She was the part. She was Felicity, which goes to show, actually, that Keri's range is very impressive and my range is not.