Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

William Shakespeare

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

Leonard Shlain

I... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud... Out here, everything was Jung.

Scott Skiles

We'd like to come out and win the first quarter. Both games, they've given us a body blow right off the jump and we just haven't been ready enough.

Rocky Bernard

Yeah, I think it has been blown out of proportion. I'm going to stay away from it. Both have great '12th men,' and I don't think it is worth all the trouble.

John Beilein

When we were up 20 with 2 to go, I said to myself 'Even I can't blow this one. It was nice to not have those gut-wrenching final seconds.

You don't know what you're going to get, but we got a nice day. Monday, it was blowing 30-40 mph here. You get one of those days in the next couple days, and the guys playing here are going to be at a big disadvantage.

Dusty Baker

What thing with Tony? If there had been a thing, somebody would have thrown some blows or something. There was no thing. We had a discussion.

We'll be back. I don't blow smoke. I tell the truth. I don't think that's the case on their side.

The referendum result is a blow for the constitutional process, but not the end of it, ... It is also not the end of the German-French partnership in and for Europe.

The red tops tend to blow things out of proportion but they will end up red in the face,

Che Guevara

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people

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.

Eddie Murphy

I will blow your face clean off your face!

Eddie Izzard

Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.

Since I've been here, there's always a comeback. Nobody has ever just blown each other out to where the other couldn't get back into it.

Mother Nature could not have picked a better sore spot for the energy industry. It's already taken a big blow on the right cheek, and now it's taking a blow on the left cheek.

May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send happiness to you.

Ben Jonson

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

Dick York

After all, didnt I blow a magnificent career?

Guru Nanak

Let him not blow a fire with his mouth, let him not look at a naked woman, let him not throw any impure substance into the fire, and let him not warm his feet at it.

Lower energy prices will cushion the blow to the economy from the higher prices so far. Psychologically, it helps the consumer and that means the hit to the economy will not be as great as feared earlier.

Losing Wesley is a further blow but we have every confidence in the players who will come in. They will do a job for us.

Losing Mike Powell was a disaster, a big blow for us, but what pulled us through was our team spirit,

Losing is a blow to the gut, no matter how it happens. A loss is a loss. We, the team, didn't get the job done and here we play as a team, win or lose. Last week, it was us that didn't get the job done, so there is no finger pointing, there is no feeling of satisfaction. We all need to go out and work hard and find a way to get a win.

Losing Craig was a big blow to us.

Gene Edwards

Scott's the 'go to' guy for Between the Lions. The guys from Boston and New York were blown away by him.

Martin Brodeur

Scott Stevens is a big part of our hockey club. We've got used to not having him around and we really have a sense of that, but life without Scott (Niedermayer), too ... that's two tough blows to take.

Todd Woodbridge

Seventy-eight candles is a heck of a lot of candles to blow out, but luckily I had a great partner to help me out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

So I said to myself, you know, 'I'm tired of the same things.' You know. Jumping over car hoods at three in the morning. And then going up to someone and says, 'I'm back.' You know and then blow him away or something. So all of this is great. But I mean, eventually it gets old.

She was very close to 12-to-15 of our seniors. It was a tough blow to our program, no question.

Benjamin Franklin

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Arthur Conan Doyle

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.