Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanilla Ice

I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.

Bonnie Bedelia

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

Billy Porter

I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.

We're not going to blow teams out. I say that to these guys all the time. The only way it's going to happen is if everybody's clicking. I think defensively, it's going to keep us in the game. We've just got to work to get other people going.

Alessandro Nesta

We still have some hope. It was a real blow to concede a goal like that but we have to do our work and hope they will be fair in the other game.

We still haven't been blown out. We're right in the thick of things.

The project is going forward. I've built buildings this size before, and it just blows my mind - my worst-case scenario was $2.5, $2.6 million.

Traditionally, when the European integration process gets hit by a blow like this, they regroup and usually use it as a spur for progress.

You look at the golf course and think it's easy because it's short. But it's not easy, and when the wind blows like it did today, it sure isn't easy.

Ali MacGraw

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

Adolf Hitler

I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

Adam Savage

How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!

Adam Savage

Let's blow some stuff up.

Andrew Strauss

We are not going to blow them away, the wicket is quite slow,

We are not going to blow teams out of the water this year like we have in the past. This is one of the top conferences in America, and you can tell that with guys spending more time in the gym, that they are dedicated to taking on the new challenge.

When the wind's blowing like this I'm sure they've never seen this much wind, and I think they have some young and inexperienced kids.

Where do all these kids who want to blow themselves up come from?

Pete Townshend

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

Robert Graves

To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.

Antawn Jamison

To blow a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter, that's an embarrassment. There's no other way to put it.

B. F. Skinner

Yeah, I had some wrecks before the HANS that really hurt me. This past year, I had a right-front tire blow out at Michigan, and I probably hit harder than I did at Atlanta. And I went and practiced my Cup car 15 minutes later.

Willie Robertson

The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.

Alice Oswald

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Deborah Tannen

The reaction to the book has been so overwhelming; it has totally blown me away. It's clear there's been a need out there.

Howard Hodgkin

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

You do all the camps in the summer to get to one place and then to totally blow it, not once, but twice. We have to go farther than we've ever been, seriously.

We didn't come in with the mind-set that we were going to blow them out, we came in thinking it was going to be a tougher game. We had to be tougher, and I think we established that.

Heston Blumenthal

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

Tommy Bowden

We are really going to miss Cole Downer, ... He has good hands, is an outstanding blocker and really fits what we are doing with this offense. He has been working very hard. This is a blow to our team.

Abraham Lincoln

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Adora Svitak

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

West Aurora is a good team. If we had gotten blown out, that would have been really bad. But we battled 'em.

We've blown so many games this year. Good teams don't let up when they have a lead. We did that tonight.