Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Pasteur

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

John Connolly

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

Luis Suarez

There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.

John Cena

Well John Cena's like a pinwheel, so you can go ahead and blow me.

John Cena

This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me.

You can play semantics and say that the operating system is shipping in 2006, but if consumers can't buy it until 2007, PC manufacturers don't have it to sell to them. This blow falls on the partners.

Maya Angelou

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

Matthew McGrory

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

Matthew McConaughey

I had a van that I customized so I could basically live out of that while I traveled and then I graduated to an Airstream. I've got three Airstreams now and they're all customized different ways. The good thing about those is there's not enough square footage to blow all your money.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Matisyahu

What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

Rick Riordan

Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

The driver passed other motorists who were trying to warn him, blowing their horns, flashing their lights, pulling over to the side of the road, ... But he continued, exit after exit.

The drifting was very high and we kept clearing it and it kept blowing back. It was just the storm that kept going on and on.

Gary Carter

The frustrating events involving some Jockey Club charges concerning my conduct, which were dropped then re-formed, have dealt a fatal blow to my chances of securing more than a couple of regular rides this year and made my decision inevitable. I'm proud to have ridden winners all over the globe including most of Europe, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, India and Singapore.

The media didn't blow it up. We knew it was a big deal.

Jim Morrison

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

The market is looking at a really strong open as Rita didn't blow as hard.

Rebecca West

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

Rebecca West

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

Ronald Steel

Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge yelled,“Thar she blows! Kansas, ahoy!” “Holy Hephaestus,” Leo muttered. “He really needs to work on his shipspeak.

Reid Scott

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

Rick Riordan

Do you always try to kill people when they blow their nose?

Ovid

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

Patty Griffin

God as "he," as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America - "he, he, he." Every time I hear that, it's like another blow against females. It's very radical talk at this point for females to say this kind of stuff, but nationwide, I still hear females referring to God as "he."

Paul Wolfowitz

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, particularly from their close neighbors in Europe who have a great stake in North Africa.

Phil Mickelson

Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you can shoot three, four, five-under par. But to make up a six, seven or eight-shot lead, that will be tough without the leaders coming back.

Quentin Tarantino

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

Robert Benchley

But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

Thomas de Quincey

I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

Timothy Egan

Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.

Thomas S. Monson

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.