Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Dorgan

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

Byron White

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.

Bum Phillips

Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n.

Ken Wilber

If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.

Karin Fossum

I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

Katie Couric

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

He blows the top off defenses. He does a great job of pushing tempo. When he comes in, it's like defenses have to prepare for another team.

He can blow by anybody. He's always the fastest player on the court.

Kevin Garnett

He really is something, ... He not only has met all those incredible expectations, he has blown them out of the water. He has built the expectations for the next generation.

For theme parks to become involved in Halloween, it's kind of a natural fit because it's something that is so easily translated into a live experience. We're able to take what you expect the Halloween experience to be and blow it up a thousand times.

Ivan Turgenev

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

H. G. Wells

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

George Herbert

The first blow is as much as two.

George Herbert

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.

Giacomo Casanova

When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

Horatio Nelson

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

Jeremy Affeldt

If I start this year, I'll be throwing my cutter a little bit. And I'll blow the dust off my changeup and bring it back.

Pat Robertson

If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer. I mean, you get through this (book), and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up.'

If I didn't blow two motors, he wouldn't have been close. It wasn't the motor guy's fault, it was mechanical stuff that broke.

Brian Roberts

If I didn't blow out on that one, I ain't blowing out I guess. I was a little scared. I looked up at Jay to make sure everything was still attached.

Brian Roberts

If I didn't blow out on that one, I ain't blowing out I guess.

If he guessed wrong, there would have been a gaping hole. He felt in his heart of hearts they were going to run a certain play, and he knew this would blow it up. And it did.

Michael Malone

If he (Rove) was forced to step down, it would be a pretty big blow to the Bush administration. A weakened Republican president who is seen as pro-business could raise some concern.

If I heard or saw something blow up, I was hoping it was my dog and not one of the soldiers.

I definitely want to go one up on him. I think it will be an emotional night. But once that whistle blows I'm going to want to kick his butt, to be honest.

Frank Adams

I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry in particular.

LeBron James

I don't take too many charges. I took a big blow there.

I do whatever everybody else does I go to a lot of movies, spend time with my girlfriend, try to stay away from the computer. The idea of going and watching 'The Insider' or 'Access Hollywood' at the end of the day makes me want to blow my brains out.

If EA blows it, gamers will look for other experiences from other companies,

I don't want to say all is lost, but it's going to be a lot of work to get us back by 2012. Maybe 2016 is more realistic. But this is terrible for our sport and for women. It's a huge blow to all of us.

I don't think they'll press him very hard because they don't want to blow the nomination.

Doc Rivers

He's one of the few guys, especially as a rookie, that when he's on the floor, at least to some degree, you breathe, ... Usually when rookies are on the court coaches don't breathe. They hold their breath. But he doesn't play that way. He's not going to blow you away with flash. He's just going to blow you away with solid basketball.