Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Smith

It's something to keep you warm. It keeps my knee from swelling up, keeps some tightness around it so it won't blow up on me when I'm out there. It's meant a lot to me.

Maria Sharapova

It's so windy today I'm really glad I had a piece of chocolate cake last night or else I would have been blown away out here.

Brendan Shanahan

It's such a playoff failure for our whole team. This was, really, I felt, a very, very strong team and a very strong potential playoff team that we had built. What a blown opportunity this was by our team.

It's not an easy call by any means, ... The risk can be enormous if you're talking about a lot of money. It can be a crippling blow for a franchise.

David Grant

Everybody on Medicare needs to sit down and say, 'What does this mean to me?' You can't just blow it off.

That was a catastrophe, a performance I can't expect. If we had our normal form, we would have blown them away. Either I speak with each player about the problem - or I talk to the coach.

That was a big hit. I don't ever think we're out of the game, but that put us just one shot away, especially with the way the wind was blowing out there tonight.

That was a big day at the plate for us. The wind was blowing about 35 mph but we had a lot of line drives. I've never seen anything like it.

That's why I say blow ... and keep on blowing.

Bottom line, I don't think we deserved this game tonight. I would say our puck urgency and our puck intensity was lacking. We had guys blowing pucks off way wide.

Carl Safina

BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

Boy, did I blow that decision. I should have let her go all-around in her return home, but she hadn't trained particularly well, and some others earned the opportunity.

Even if you take Michael Fortier at face value, ... he never heard Terry Nichols say he was going to blow up anything in Oklahoma City.

Even now, at my age, I still get hungry after a while, if I don't play for a week or so. It's nice to play again, you know. Sometimes I go two weeks without playing. But I think that can be good for you, too, if you play professionally all the time. A little time off won't hurt you. It kind of refreshes you. But I still get that feeling that I'd like to blow again.

Belleview is going to blow up in the next few years.

Blow for blow, you guys were right there with them. Forget the scoreboard; this is one you should never forget.

Everybody knows Jen went about it the wrong way. But really, all of it was blown out of proportion by the media.

Everyone was blown away when they came into our house. A lot of people talked about how it was a home that they would move in today.

Bruce Babbitt

Every successful prescribed fire is a blow for safety in surrounding communities and for forest health. These forests are made safer by periodic fires -- a natural part of the evolution, growth and maintenance of healthy forests,

Tony Stewart

Every race we come here there is a lot of wrappers and stuff, ... The majority of grandstands are on the west side, and the wind was blowing to the east. I wouldn't say it was any worse than it typically is. It was pretty much the normal amount. ... With as windy as it was, I'll be honest. I expected it to be a lot worse.

Every donation was from the community. It's unbelievable down here. It just blows my mind, the kind of support we have.

Robert Horry

For a big man to throw it in, you know it's just your night. Personally, I hate to blow a team out because that fuels their fire. It's like somebody slapping you in your face, and you want to get 'em back.

Jason Terry

For a minute, it looked like they were going to blow us out. We've seen that from them before. But we stayed with it, and give credit to our fans, who gave us energy when we needed it.

It's the whole testosterone thing. We like to shoot guns and blow things up.

It's obviously very possible that, deep down, it's shaken my confidence. I've definitely taken a big blow mentally.

Craig Biggio

It's the only way we know how to do it. We can win 10-9 or 2-1. It's just something that over the last three or four years, we have no idea on how to blow another team out. I think a lot of guys in here are used to the tough games.

It's the game of football and key is to win games and we won the game. Teams are going to struggle with teams, that's just going to happen. It's kind of like you have to blow everybody out and that's not realistic.

It's more of a blow for his school.

It just blows me away. For the honor to come from people who know the business means a lot more than anything else you'll ever get. This means a great deal to me.

Joe Girardi

It is the way that it is supposed to be. Your top two hitters get on, and the 3-4-5 guys drive them in. We have lost some tough games, and we were pretty much blown out the last two days. It was good to see our guys come back and battle.

Herman Melville

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.

Herb Kohl

Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.

Henry David Thoreau

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.