Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we are witnessing is a political meltdown. This is a serious blow for the government, and it's not clear it can get though this unscathed.

Charles Churchill

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

Tommy Rettig

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

Tina Brown

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

Charles Spurgeon

A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

Carl von Clausewitz

The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

Carl Sandburg

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

We've taken a couple of body blows and are still standing. And I think that's pretty encouraging.

Haley Barbour

We've suffered a grievous blow that we won't recover from for a long while.

Catherine Jinks

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

Alan Cranston

There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.

Mother Nature could not have picked a better sore spot for the energy industry. It's already taken a big blow on the right cheek, and now it's taking a blow on the left cheek.

May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send happiness to you.

Lucy Liu

My freckles are always there. I think the lighting blows it out. If we had to cover up the freckles, I'd be forever with a thick thing of makeup.

One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''

One passed through the Monterey community of Rankin County. You saw what that did. Weak structures will be blown down.

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

One hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old in this league. That's pretty unbelievable. It's definitely something I want to help him achieve. Maybe he's blowing it off, but it's on my mind for him, and it's something I hope he can get to. But I think he's just going to play his game. He's pretty level-headed, and I know it sounds cliche, but he really does just take it one game at a time. And that's good on his part just to stay focused. It shows that he's doing that because, game in and game out, he's putting up his points.

Joe Girardi

Obviously we've lost a bunch of tough games this year. Then we pretty much got blown out two days in a row. For our guys to bounce back, it says something about our guys. ... Guys picked it up.

Jim Flaherty

Obviously with the winds blowing like they are, it pushed the fire pretty hard.

John Milton

O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted, / Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

No one is going to try to give us a break. Everybody's got a target on us. They're going to try to blow us out.

No one feels like it's going to blow the numbers out of the water compared to last year. We think back-to-school got off to a pretty slow start in July, but we're expecting retailers will make up some of the lost ground in August.

My guys just wanted the ref to blow the whistle. They wanted a piece of that team so badly.

Kofi Annan

Now they have had this serious blow and I think we should try and help President (George W.) Bush and the administration, the American Red Cross and NGOs...who have been our partners in other crises around the world like the tsunami,

Now, she blows away people with her talent. But first, she had to get to know the business.

Richard Parsons

New Line is having such a blow out year in 2003 that it's impossible to repeat going forward,

Obviously I saw him trip. I thought he was going to get up. He wasn't grabbing anything, and it looked like he was smiling. But when I got to him, he said, 'It's blown out.' He knew.

Michael Williams

Obviously, there's an attorney-client privilege, and clients would not want their confidential information blowing through Downtown.

Sergio Garcia

Obviously, the good thing about golf, it's difficult to really, really blow it after five holes unless it goes really, really, really... really, really, really wrong. But you still have 13 to go, and if you have a good run, where you make five or six birdies, you can get it back somehow.

Bobby Jones

Obviously, a big blow for J.R. and a disappointing blow for our team.

Dick York

After all, didnt I blow a magnificent career?