Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis Diller

To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.

Maggie Stiefvater

hey Lynch I didn't leave that car for it to sit while you just blow III

Haruki Murakami

Everything just blows me away.

Haruki Murakami

I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away.

Han Suyin

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ...

Gustave Flaubert

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Greg Behrendt

Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.

John Dryden

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

John Dryden

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

John Dryden

The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

John Maynard Keynes

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.

John Knox

As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

Jodie Foster

Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.

Josh Gad

Josh [Gad] is such an amazing improviser and is so good when the material is flowing from him that sometimes, if a written scene isn't working quite right, I'll tell him that we've got it and that he can just play. He'll blow us away with some super weird stuff and some wild things that we might use bits and pieces of in the edit, and then I'll say, "Just for good measure, let's do one more of the scripted version."

Katharine Whitehorn

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind ...

Lauren Bacall

If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.

Lanford Wilson

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

Kurtis Blow

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.

John Keats

Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

Joseph Parker

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

Josh Billings

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Patrick Swayze

It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

Patrick Carney

The fact we get played on the radio now blows our minds.

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.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

Noah Feldman

We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?

Joe Sakic

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Jodi Picoult

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

John Green

After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

Mark McGwire

When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

Mario Puzo

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Noam Chomsky

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.