Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Catalanotto

But it would definitely be a big blow to the team if he is out for the whole season.

This is a devastating blow to the consumer. This one will lead to the end of the era of falling prices for telephone and cell-phone service.

Rob Andrew

This is a devastating blow for Phil, who has really developed as a player in recent years and become a vital member of the squad,

This has been blown up into a big story because it's the week of the draft. Reggie Bush didn't know anything about this. He never lived in the house.

This has been a huge blow to the whole idea of multi-ethnicity, not only of Sarajevo but the entire country.

Reggie Bush

This has all been blown out of proportion due to my public image. There is nothing to worry about. We've done nothing wrong.

They've blown the cachet they had years ago. It's over now, and it's hard to move a brand up once you've been down.

Roy Williams

They understand the competitiveness you have to have. I told them that, in 1982, North Carolina won the championship and we won the first game by blowing out James Madison 52-50.

John Wayne

My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

John Philpot Curran

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

Martin Luther

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

Seth Godin

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

(Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated so badly that she half-expected it to disintegrate underneath them.) Cap’n, I don’t think she’ll hold. The warp engines can’t take any more. It’s going to blow apart. (Astrid)

Terry Richardson

It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

Marcus Garvey

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Michael Ondaatje

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

Sean Burroughs

The home run was a mistake pitch, definitely. You can't blow a 78 mph fastball by a hitter the caliber of Matt Holliday.

You can see the fad, and know it's just a matter of time until it blows up. When people get worried, they will want the safety of U.S. equities.

You don't have that here. We want to blow that stereotype out of the water.

Henry Rollins

I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.

Henry Rollins

It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

Henry Rollins

The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

Helen Humphreys

There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.

Helen Gurley Brown

Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

Hedy Lamarr

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

Paddy Considine

All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

Pablo Neruda

And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

Plautus

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there. [Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]

James Rollins

I was all set to blow some crap up.

James Rollins

Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance to the dangers of today. It reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Put this novel on your must-read list-anything by Harp is now on mine.

Johnny Winter

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues