Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

Henry David Thoreau

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

Jessica Hahn

If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.

Jerry Garcia

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

Jerry Falwell

You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.

Jerome K. Jerome

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.

James A. Baldwin

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

Franz Grillparzer

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

Jim Carrey

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

George William Russell

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

George Saunders

I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

Jim Henson

It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.

Eoin Colfer

Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even the magic can't fix. Other than that you should be all right, presuming you remembered to wear the regulation above-ground micro-fibre jumpsuit recently patented by me. Then again, being a Recon jock, you probably didn't.

Eminem

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

Hilary Swank

I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up.

Hillary Clinton

Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they always begin or end with Washington D.C.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

Evelyn Waugh

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Evan Esar

Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.

Gerald Celente

Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.

Hugo Black

The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.

Horace

We get blows and return them.

Gillian Jacobs

The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.

Jerry Lewis

He said, 'Listen, can you wait an hour before you blow your head off?' I said, 'Yes.'

Scott Turow

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Gena Showalter

Bomb', Reyes said, not bothering to look up. 'One of ours?' Maddox insisted... 'Hardly. I know better than to blow myself up,' Reyes sighed.

Eric Clapton

I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.

Eric Clapton

I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

Christopher Bond

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.