Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tiger Woods

We were all curious how it was going to hold up playing fast. With the wind supposed to blow 20 mph tomorrow, it might make things a little interesting.

We definitely get away from the offense. Everyone is just running around and wants to do it on their own and not executing. But that's not how it works and you end up getting blown out.

Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how things are perceived. The most mystifying thing is why a certain combination of words and melody will blow people's minds, while others - which is 99.9 percent of all songs - fall flat. That for me was the search: to discover how to create songs that had that quality.

Aaron Allston

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

Skrillex

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'

A. A. Milne

Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

Adora Svitak

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

West Aurora is a good team. If we had gotten blown out, that would have been really bad. But we battled 'em.

We've blown so many games this year. Good teams don't let up when they have a lead. We did that tonight.

Aleksandar Hemon

I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

Willie Robertson

The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.

Alice Oswald

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Deborah Tannen

The reaction to the book has been so overwhelming; it has totally blown me away. It's clear there's been a need out there.

Howard Hodgkin

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

The project is going forward. I've built buildings this size before, and it just blows my mind - my worst-case scenario was $2.5, $2.6 million.

Traditionally, when the European integration process gets hit by a blow like this, they regroup and usually use it as a spur for progress.

Pete Townshend

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

Toby Keith

I always vote for the guy I think can get it done. And it ain't nobody's business who I vote for, but I voted for Clinton twice. And that just blows people's minds when they hear that.

Trent Reznor

What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

Ty Segall

A CCR Headcleaner show will blow your mind.

Takeshi Kitano

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

I thought we might have a tough time with the wind blowing like it was. It helped dry off the field after the sun came out so it worked out for us.

I thought the other horse was going to blow by. To hold on like he did shows his quality. This was a gut check. Class always prevails. If he could have gone slower, he probably could have won by more.

Brad Shaw

I think we recognized we need close to 90 points to have a shot at the playoffs. With 13 games left we have to win a lions share of those. Not getting two points tonight hurts. It's not devastating, but it is a blow to our chances.

Joseph Abboud

I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.

I think we're pretty resilient. And I think our kids are all fighters. We could have been down and out a number of times this year. But we have a lot of fight. Other than our game at Fresno State, we haven't been blown out all year. That's a tribute to the work and fight of this team. It's pretty good for a team that many thought wouldn't five games.

I think blowing snow will be a problem.

Bonnie Bedelia

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

Billy Porter

I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.

We're not going to blow teams out. I say that to these guys all the time. The only way it's going to happen is if everybody's clicking. I think defensively, it's going to keep us in the game. We've just got to work to get other people going.

Alessandro Nesta

We still have some hope. It was a real blow to concede a goal like that but we have to do our work and hope they will be fair in the other game.

We still haven't been blown out. We're right in the thick of things.

Robert Graves

To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.