Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver

There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.

Norman Tebbit

I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.

Norman Mailer

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

O. Henry

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Michael Caine

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

Mary Karr

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Michael Chang

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

Michelangelo Antonioni

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

Michelangelo Antonioni

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

Ted Nugent

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

The hurricane season failed to blow the economy off course.

George H. W. Bush

the enemy understands that a free Iraq would be a blow to their vision.

James Madison

It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.

James Longstreet

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

Joan Jett

If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous."

The closing of the Emerson plant was a blow to the community as well as the many talented employees who lost work with the shut down of that plant.

(The coaches) said I did a good job of getting to the foul line. I know how to get fouled. I know how to make the refs blow the whistle, and that's one of the things I tried to put in my game this year. Even when you're not making shots, you can always get to the free-throw line.

The company has lost credibility and if they were to disappoint this quarter, it would be a serious blow to the stock and I would have to question owning it going forward,

The concept of blowing up innocent people is not permissible.

Neal Stephenson

I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.

Shay Mitchell

I can't live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair it makes it so much bouncier. It gives you shampoo commercial hair and makes your blowout so much better.

Shashi Tharoor

The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

Michael Pollan

Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.

John Wayne

My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

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.

Seth Godin

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

(Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated so badly that she half-expected it to disintegrate underneath them.) Cap’n, I don’t think she’ll hold. The warp engines can’t take any more. It’s going to blow apart. (Astrid)

Terry Richardson

It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

Marcus Garvey

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.