Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Chris Pratt

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

Chris Isaak

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

George Orwell

The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

George Orwell

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.

Garth Nix

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

Frederick Douglass

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Frank Sinatra

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

William Shakespeare

Sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.

Joshua Bell

So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face.

Patrick Beverley

It was my first visit, and I was just a little blown away by it all. I decided to take more time to make a decision.

Tim Salmon

I'm more excited than I've been in many, many years. I can do some things that I haven't been able to do in 4-5 years. In some ways, I feel like a kid. My knee feels great, I'm running great. But I'm not going to blow smoke. You just don't know what it's going to be like over the course of a season.

I'm fully expecting that we'll have a big surplus next year, ... and I'd like to see a plan for that now rather than waiting until that money comes in, then blowing it like a drunken lottery winner.

I'm just blown away by what people told me.

Erma Bombeck

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Cassandra Clare

Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

George Eliot

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

George Eliot

The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

Determining whether this would be a death blow depends on the damages and the number of fraudulent goods sold on eBay. The outcome could also spark both legitimate and fraudulent insurance offerings to protect consumers.

Catherine Bertini

An escalation of fighting will strike a deadly blow to thousands of extremely fragile people.

Tommy Cooper

A policeman stopped me and said: "Would you please blow into this bag, sir?" I said: "What for, officer?" He said: "My chips are too hot.

William Wordsworth

Another race hath been, and other palms are won./ Thanks to the human heart by which we live,/ Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears,/ To me the meanest flower that blows can give/ Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Reggie Watts

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.

Power poles and trees were down, roofs were blown off and there was no electricity. Those were sad sights.

Zab Judah

Saturday night was a great event and I'm sorry it turned out the way it did. The low blow that was called, I didn't intentionally hit Mr. Mayweather with a low blow. That's why I proceeded to follow with my hook. I was throwing combinations.

Public corruption, as you've seen in New Orleans and Louisiana, is something that has dealt in the past crippling blows to our government to provide assistance.

Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window.

Thad Matta

Quite honestly, this is exactly what we told the kids was going to happen. We knew kids that were in the third grade when this happened probably weren't going to be punished. We had great confidence in that. It would have been a devastating blow had it gone the other way.

Prizes are given in the form of moo dollars they can redeem for prizes at the prize barn. We also have an Easter egg hunt, a rock-climbing wall and five blow up games like the Moon Walk.

People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

Jeremiah Trotter

Our expectations were so high coming in, and, just the way everything went down, it was a big blow to us.

Other Internet companies are not likely to blow through their quarters the way they have in the past,

Michael Bridges

People are taking notice. At the start of the season, before I was here, the lads said that the main objective was to stay up. But now people are talking about getting promoted. We're not going to blow our own trumpet, we will let other people do the talking. There's no pressure on us but we are going about things the right way.