Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Matthews

It was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.

Gilbert Arenas

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.

George Washington

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

G. H. Hardy

For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of suggestion to me ever since I knew him, and his death is one of the worst blows I have ever had.

Nancy White

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.

Milarepa

Many times I felt I was on the razor's edge. I never quite knew which way the wind was going to blow when I asked a question to [Osho].

Miles Davis

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Margaret Weis

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Kellan Lutz

It's weird that the world sees modeling as a negative. It just blows my mind how many people think that because I was a model, I think I'm pretty and that I can use my looks to get ahead. I'm not pretty!

I don't like working on stuff unless it's going to make an impact. I want people to talk about this and remember it. If I finally get my crack at Spider-Man and then blow it, ugh. I will happily walk in front of a bus to sell more copies after I finish.

John C. Maxwell

Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion.

The little girls will bring their hats and get them autographed even by the contestants, which blows the contestants away.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

James Patterson

Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!" Max: (Raises her eyebrows) Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs)

James Patterson

It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.

Emile Zola

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

Emile Zola

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

Emile M. Cioran

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

Emily Giffin

I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

Emily Dickinson

He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

Ariel Sharon

The disengagement plan is a harsh and painful blow to the Palestinians. The Palestinians will do everything to prevent its being accepted,

The day Ivan does start, it will be interesting to see if he lasts 90 minutes or if I'm bringing him off after an hour because I feel he is blowing hard,

Larry Coker

Am I surprised that Kirby is staying? No. He's thought this process out. Nothing ever indicated to me that he was going to blow this thing off and leave.

All of the girls played with heart. They are such a young team and not once have they had a blow out match. All of them are playing tough tennis and I am so pleased.

Chad Cordero

All the guys went out there today and battled all day, and I throw one inning and I blow it. I just want to throw stuff. I'm just upset.

Henry Van Dyke

I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

Henrik Ibsen

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

Ho Chi Minh

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

Helen Mirren

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

Heinrich Heine

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Hilary Mantel

There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!