Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're doing something for someone just about once a week. They just blow me away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

Albert Ellis

I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't, we'll have chaos worse than we already do.

William Butler Yeats

I hear the wind a blow I hear the grass a grow, And all that I know, I know. But I will not speak, I will run away.

Luis Aragones

I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary blow which threw us off-balance.

I promise to be the referee, to blow the whistle on candidates or campaigns that try to tear down other Republicans.

Robert Solow

Investors are worried that something is going to blow up tomorrow -- they just think it's a crazy world.

George Martin

In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course, we used bowls of water too. And bottles with straws, blowing them into the water, to get the effect of submarines surfacing, that kind of thing. It was nice to do because it, we were all being very inventive. And it was fun, it was like a party almost.

In the second half we tried to run but we couldn't hang on to the ball. We need consistency and tonight we didn't have that. We had a chance to blow the game wide open in the third quarter.

Lindy Ruff

In the last two minutes of the first period, that's as big of a blow that you can suffer when you are in your building.

Michael Mandelbaum

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.

In the case of fire, we will stop the pullout and strike a big blow in an operation at division level,

If your goals are blown out of proportion, you won't even want to get started.

Butch Harmon

I had heard of Tiger, but I had never seen him play, ... Like everyone else, I was immediately blown away by the raw talent.

Mark Richt

I'm confident he'll do a good job. I think we'll be OK. But losing Sean is definitely a blow for us.

I'm blown away. . . . I wasn't expecting anything like this.

If you don't know your algebra, you'll blow the lights and ruin the scene.

If the wind wasn't blowing I'd set up a dish.

If you have a max and go with it on the first round, you might blow the competition away, but you might also be shooting yourself in the foot and overpaying.

If you put a pop can in the freezer, it will expand and blow up. It's the same principle as underground. The colder the liquid gets, it expands and will break the container it's in.

Richard Engel

If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be convenient for rebels to say, 'It was the Americans.'

Tim O'Connor

If you're in an outdoor event, for example let's say a soccer game, and the person next to you is smoking on a normal bleacher and if the wind is blowing in your direction, it's like someone sitting next to you in a restaurant. Now, if the distance is farther, obviously the secondhand smoke would diminish or the side effects would diminish.

If you blow through a straw and pinch one end, what happens? ... If the filter is clogged, the burner will still be burning at full capacity, but it won't push as much heat through the house.

David Dreman

If you play it out long enough it blows up,

If you own one of these homes, it's very important to have up to date electrical wiring. If your morning routine is to start breakfast on an electrical stove while your wife blow dries her hair and waits for her curling iron to heat up, that right there is enough energy to power the entire house way back when it was built.

James O'Shaughnessy

If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged.

Mark King

If you look at us per capita, we just blow everyone else out of the water.

If you have things in the yard that might blow away, bring them inside and trim trees and other vegetation,

I dont know how fast it was coming, but you could hear it coming from a distance. It was blowing its horn,

Harrison Ford

I didn't just wake up one morning 63 years old, so it's not a real blow to me. It's been incremental. I've been able to accommodate.

Irving Layton

how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.

Jack Kerouac

Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball. The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world.

Because the ground is saturated, trees will get blown over pretty easy.