Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Leyland

You get in a catch-22. A club like ours that needs to get re-established -- we have to win every one we have a shot to win. But I'm not going to do that at the expense of hurting our pitchers, because in the long run it will blow up in our face.

Paul Scheer

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

Sonakshi Sinha

Even if my film does well, you will not see me blowing my own trumpet. There is no time to sit and dwell on whether it's done well or not done well.

Simon Pegg

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.

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.

The Liberals are being blown out of the water. The only thing we're discussing now is whether the Conservatives are going to form a majority or a minority.

Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

The kid's been doing it all year. He's slippery and he can burn you. That first run he had, I just kind of dropped my jaw in watching him make a cut and blowing away the secondary.

Walter Benjamin

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

It's a massive blow to lose Gareth and with injuries we already have we are now without a right wing.

It looked like a piece of paper blowing in the wind.

It kind of blows our minds sometimes, ... We look at each other and say, 'It's just a melon, right?'

Kenny Miller

It's great to be back and it's been a long time coming. Missing the start of the Premiership was a big blow but I feel fit and ready to go and I want to score,

It's hard, but it would be much harder if we were getting blown out by 20 points. Then we would be wondering if we are not good enough, or not doing this, or not doing that.

Morgan Ensberg

It's disappointing to get blown out. Mitre just pitched really well. Offensively, they just got a lot of hits. It was just one of those days where they were on and we were off.

This is not an easy business folks, ... Disaster management is not a matter of reading a guide book and then showing up in the middle of a small town that has just been blown off the map by tornadoes.

This isn't about me. I'm not one to blow my own horn. But recognition is important for those coming up through the school, to show kids it can be done.

This is not what I envisioned. Obviously, with the wind blowing it was not going to be an offensive day. The only time it could be is if you gave free passes.

This is really probably the knockout blow for eBay in China.

This is standard stuff, and the numbers don't blow me away. I certainly expect there to be dozens, if not hundreds, of patients who come forward. It's premature to try to predict the ultimate disposition of the cases.

Ariel Sharon

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

Ray Nitschke

That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it.

Ray Davies

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

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.

Tamsin Egerton

I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

Tanith Lee

How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.

Tamora Pierce

He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

Rosalind Wiseman

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

Ronald Biggs

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

Stephen King

It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down.

Stefan Molyneux

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Stefan Sagmeister

Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.