Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audra McDonald

When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.

Andrew Mitchell

We've been playing well enough to win all year. We know we can play with everybody. We've only been blown out a couple of times.

We're telling the players to make sure you stay in coverage and don't blow coverage. We have to keep them in front and tackle them so they don't make big plays.

Brenda Laurel

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

We were expecting him to log heavy minutes this year, so not having him was a big blow to us.

We were down 11-2 and 13-4 during the game. The wind was blowing out big time. We were down nine runs and there was no sense of urgency. The kids really pushed themselves.

You bet. We own the Titans. I remember the good old days when I would blow up Eddie George with a big hit. Now, they've got another running back with two first names, Travis Henry, whom I plan on blowing up in the same manner.

Exposure for the city. It's the first time any one of the four major sports has ever done anything like this. So you start with that, and I think it's going to blow up from there.

Carl Davis

Every time I try to talk to a police officer, I just get blown off,

Bill Cosby

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

Ariel Pink

When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.

When you get abnormally warm weather, the seasonal factor will blow this up into a big gain. Once we lose this weather effect, we'll see how much of an employment gain we get.

When you look at their platform, this fiscal imbalance could blow a serious hole in their budget.

Gilbert Arenas

When you look around the league, you don't see them getting blown out. They just play hard. They hang right there and they lose in the end because they don't have the talent that everyone else does.

Richard Lloyd

While I was in Kosovo, a 50-year-old man was collecting firewood. He was in a forest (and) he stepped on a cluster bomblet. He was blown to pieces,

Jean Chatzky

While it's true a small treat won't blow your budget, indulging every day could - the same way a slice of cake probably won't hurt but, if you make it a daily habit, you may have trouble fitting in your pants.

When the fourth official put two minutes up I just thought blow your whistle because you could feel that as soon as we conceded the first goal we were jittery and worried.

When we've had company-specific disappointments like this over the past two years, we've seen buyers come in after the midday to snap up bargains. If that doesn't happen, it could be very bad. We could see the Dow at 10,500, which would be a blow less than a week after everyone was talking about tripping over 11,000.

Lord Byron

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow

Robert Harris

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

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.

We wanted to do something that would blow the socks off everyone and we were able to do it.

We wanted to deliver the first blow. We didn't want to take any blows tonight.

We've had the lead in every third period of every game this year, so it's not like we were getting killed, just finding ways to blow it.

We've had some unfortunate breaks. We don't have the luxury to blow another game because we're worried about the past.

We've had snow, hard snow, blowing all night, ... I'm looking out the window from here at the governor's mansion ... It's getting deeper every hour ... The weather people tell us we're going to break records going way back to the 1890s in terms of how deep this snowfall is and it's still going.

John Hunter

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

This (securities settlement) certainly blows away any we've seen so far.