Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Blake

Had a ground-rule double, ... The wind was blowing so hard. I had no chance.

It certainly seems they're casting a net much more widely than would be necessary to thwart something like the blowing up of the Oklahoma City federal building.

Eric Chavez

I think without a doubt, those guys are the favorite to win. And I'm not blowing smoke, because there's something to be said for guys that have done it before.

I was disappointed in my tee shot because it was into the wind and when I started the first hole, the wind was blowing really hard and I tried to hit it hard. I think I was rushing my play. After the third, I tried to slow down and find my rhythm.

There is a strong wind blowing now and the track is firming up nicely. We put 5mm of irrigation on last night and it was a dead 5 early this morning. We're hoping it will be a good 3 by race time tomorrow.

There is no evidence that milk correlates to blowing noses.

Hitting really is contagious. The last couple games have been high-scoring games, the winds blowing and anything can happen.

Gore Vidal

The ownership of this country has usually been pretty shrewd. They knew what they wanted. They don't want to pay taxes, certainly. They don't want people blowing them up in the night like 9/11. And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that.

He wasn't blowing at all. The only reason I had someone in the work with him is because he's so lazy. When he worked alone, he went in 1:17.

I thought we might have a tough time with the wind blowing like it was. It helped dry off the field after the sun came out so it worked out for us.

Joseph Abboud

I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.

I think blowing snow will be a problem.

Gary Karr

He has known for a long time that he would not be renominated, ... What I told him about the state was that the eyes of the Democratic Party were on us, wondering why we let this happen, why it wasn't us blowing the whistle on Martha Bark.

For us to continue with him and take a chance of blowing his knees out for good wasn't smart. That's a huge loss for us.

I was shocked ... because everybody was blowing it off like it wasn't going to be a big deal.

Paul Haggis

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28. It's very difficult to think of new ways of blowing things up. It's the journey that's the thing--finding a new journey for the character.

Diane Ackerman

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

We were down 11-2 and 13-4 during the game. The wind was blowing out big time. We were down nine runs and there was no sense of urgency. The kids really pushed themselves.

Bill Cosby

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

Ariel Pink

When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.

Robert Harris

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

We've had snow, hard snow, blowing all night, ... I'm looking out the window from here at the governor's mansion ... It's getting deeper every hour ... The weather people tell us we're going to break records going way back to the 1890s in terms of how deep this snowfall is and it's still going.

We all know the housing market is slowing, and people are blowing this housing data off a bit.

We had a face of a pharaoh that just showed up one day, the sands were blowing and then all of sudden his face was looking out at us from the dunes.

Pennant is actually considered a fan-assist atmospheric boiler, which uses atmospheric venting. But they use a fan on the out-side blowing in to regain your pressure loss on the combustion side. That helps a lot.

Joe Sakic

I think the Vancouver thing, you guys (in the media) are blowing out of proportion,

I think there's a good chance that we'd increase the cancer rates as a result of this stuff blowing out of here.

Last spring, it was about color; this year, it's about romance. Think about sheer curtains blowing in the wind.

Otto Penzler

I said, see if blowing the place up is possible.

(Matt) Miller did a nice job pitching. The wind was blowing hard to left and he really settled down in the middle innings for us.

I was very surprised by the score. I felt like with the way the wind was blowing out there is no way Flower Mound and Marcus is going to play a 1-0 game through six innings.

Frank Thomas

I think he's become a better pitcher. He really concentrates on spots more than just blowing you away.

Pat Patterson

I'm higher than most places on this island, but Im not going to take a chance of a 150 mph wind blowing through here.