Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Garnett

We knew that if we came in here and played around or didn't play with the right mind set, we were going to get blown out. We came in and took some of their 3-pointers away.

We keep sinking our hopes with self-inflicted wounds. Once we eliminate the mental mistakes and blown assignments, we'll start seeing the wins.

We're out of the tournament, but it's not like we have to blow it up and start over.

Jean Chatzky

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.

To see his name smacked through the mud, so to speak, was a tremendous blow to him. He's very vulnerable.

We didn't get the big hit yesterday. We could have blown them out of the water.

Paul Simon

Who am I to blow against the wind?

Orson Scott Card

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

We were very poor, this is a huge blow but we've got to take it on the chin

We, as a community, live as the wind blows with visitors; they bring the money into the city, ... When they come, they require protection. The way I see it, it is an insurance premium I pay so that visitors and residents can be safe.

Michael Vaughan

We have been on the ropes for three games and the final knock-out blow was today. You can only keep taking so many punches, but we could not withstand any more.

Larry Brown

We have been getting blown out in a lot of games because we have been getting so far behind. The last three we have had a chance to win which is a good sign. They needed that because they are trying.

David Bolinsky

When I was four years old, some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.

William Shakespeare

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

William Shakespeare

If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.

David O. Selznick

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

Dani Shapiro

As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Clement Attlee

If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.

Dante Alighieri

O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

Dante Alighieri

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

Dan Simmons

The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

We had a face of a pharaoh that just showed up one day, the sands were blowing and then all of sudden his face was looking out at us from the dunes.

We had a couple of opportunities to blow the game open, but we didn't. We won, so we'll take it.

Joe Thornton

We had a couple of blown defensive assignments that gave Wicksburg some big plays. We got a little big-eyed and we got tired. We had 101 snaps in three quarters. They were in better shape than we were.

Rob Gronkowski

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

To that point, the team's mood was a lot like the weather--kind of gray. But then Justin comes out in one of our first races of the day and blows the field away. That set the tone for the rest of the day.

Bellamy Young

Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.

While fleet sales have been cushioning the blow of weak retail sales, particularly for Ford and Chrysler in February, the Big Three have been promising to de-emphasize this side of the business and headline numbers could suffer as a result.

John Kasich

The president has to work with us, we're willing to work with him, and this is an opportunity for him to show real leadership. I hope they don't blow this chance.

Dixie Lee Ray

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.