Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Kiedis

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

Alicia Keys

I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.

Alice Walker

Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

Aesop

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

Aesop

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

Aeschylus

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Aeschylus

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

James Cook

The dead grass and pine needles from last year serve as fuel for the fire. With the wind blowing the way it is, an ember from a small fire can blow dozens of feet and spark a larger fire.

You can blow up every building in the world, but inevitably the scenes come down to two people talking and what is that about. We love taking incredibly flawed characters and setting them on their way and having them chat about things.

Gary Williams

You can blow smoke this time of year, ... Come March, you are what you are.

Wins are always good. ... When you blow out a team the first time you play them, it's sometime hard to come out with the same fire in your belly. But I was proud with how we hung in there and fought.

Well, Clay, ... How about blowing up the New Yorker in New York?

We were more patient at the plate today but offensively we are still not where we want to be yet. We were better yesterday, but today we had some chances to blow some innings open and we didn't get it done.

When it's real steaming hot like it is today, winds blowing and the wind blows our tents, that's about the worst.

We are blowing past all energy records that have been ever set.

We are blowing hot and cold at the moment and hopefully it will be one of our hot spells tonight.

Bobby Jones

We're always just trying to scrap back when we come here or we're getting blown out. Hopefully something new can happen on this last trip.

Ned Yost

When he pitched more aggressively out of the bullpen, something started clicking. Later in the year, he was strong and the more I saw him, the more I liked him. I think he has a lot of up side. I saw him blow away some good hitters.

Kevin Smith

We've gone from getting blown out to being competitive every game. We're not playing like a 5-13 team but like a 13-5 team, and that says something about the character of this team. Character will take you a long way.

There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.

Kage Baker

For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.

Joan Cusack

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.

James Wolcott

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

Lisa Ling

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

Sharon Stone

I think when you love a child, it's a different kind of love. You think, 'I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up.' And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can't love any more.

Billy Connolly

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Billy Connolly

What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?

Bruce Dickinson

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

Antonin Scalia

Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited under the Constitution?

Antonin Scalia

You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that. And once you acknowledge that, we're into a different game.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!

Eckhart Tolle

Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.

Edward Gibbon

When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.