Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

This team, this defense we're facing is extremely disruptive, ... They're blowing up gaps. They're going to get negative runs.

We knew he hit it really well, but the wind was blowing in so hard that we were not sure if it would get out. It went out by plenty.

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.

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.

Eric is playing so well. And the offensive line is blowing people off the ball.

Sandra Taylor

Escaped debris burning continues to be the leading cause of wildfires in this area, ... Blowing sparks and embers from debris fires can ignite dry grass, and irresponsible equipment use can also lead to wildfires if dry weather prevails.

Bottom line, I don't think we deserved this game tonight. I would say our puck urgency and our puck intensity was lacking. We had guys blowing pucks off way wide.

Tony Stewart

Every race we come here there is a lot of wrappers and stuff, ... The majority of grandstands are on the west side, and the wind was blowing to the east. I wouldn't say it was any worse than it typically is. It was pretty much the normal amount. ... With as windy as it was, I'll be honest. I expected it to be a lot worse.

Containment lines (are) holding at this stage but we're very worried about the wind blowing up strongly,

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.

We weren't playing a real controlled soccer game in the first half. The wind was really blowing hard, but both teams had those conditions.

We have to do something to make things happen. With the wind blowing in, it was a tough day. We had the right situation up.

Shayne Graham

I've been in the stadium where all four ribbons on top of the goalposts were blowing toward each other. It doesn't make any sense, but I've seen it. That's just what happens when you've got so many surfaces for the wind to blow against.

Chris Carpenter

I've been in this situation, blowing a 2-0 lead.

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.

Brian Helgeland

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.

Robert Harris

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

Jay Haas

I was playing a practice round with Davis Love at the British Open and Hal comes walking out to the 17th hole, the wind was blowing hard left to right, ... I hit a 4-iron to the green and Davis hit it on. When we got to the green, Davis said, 'You think Hal was impressed with that?' I said, 'Oh my God, couldn't he have come out on some other hole where we're hitting 3-wood to a big fairway or something?' We laughed.

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.

We played the short game some with the wind blowing in.

We've gotten away from looking at the process of the game. We start looking at the big picture, and we start thinking about (winning all the games in a series). Right now we're blowing this up way too big, and that's what we did during the (losing streak). We need to play the game pitch by pitch.

We've got power in the lineup. What's been frustrating in Cedar City are games where the wind's blowing in. Today, on a nice field and the winds down, we had a chance to put a few out.

We're not at that point yet, but ... it looks like we're going to hit it in June. That is, barring the unforeseen -- God knows who blowing up God knows what -- and if oil manages to stay under $100 per barrel.

We're working in the dark; we don't have an inventory list. We had an elevator guy standing waist-deep in sewage-contaminated water, blowing on the wires so we could short-circuit the elevator and get it working.

Well, Clay, ... How about blowing up the New Yorker in New York?

When it's real steaming hot like it is today, winds blowing and the wind blows our tents, that's about the worst.

We are blowing past all energy records that have been ever set.