Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Ling

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

There are some pretty rotten things going on in our prisons. We've seen prisoners sleeping in vans, a big increase in smuggling contraband into prisons, we've heard the suggestion that criminals should be prison guards, seen budgets blown and prisoners accessing violent movies.

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.

Fund companies are increasingly looking at this as a retention tool. Perhaps its one way to keep your fund manager on board. I don't know if it's a full blown turning point, but companies realize it could be a brain drain so they're taking steps to stay competitive.

I don't think it's blown by, by any stretch of the imagination.

I don't think our constituents think it's real. As with so many things, it seems to be so blown out of proportion. And, frankly, this generation has not witnessed anything like this. But I did take some notes during this meeting, and we are going to prepare.

Allen Johnson

I felt like I was being blown backwards,

I feel pretty good about it. I'm pretty blown away actually. I didn't ever really think about anything like that. I didn't even know they had the award.

I feel pretty good about it, ... I'm pretty blown away actually. I didn't ever really think about anything like that. I didn't even know they had the award.

I can tell you that I was blown away; they had 36 states represented last year and right about 300 teams. Because they take over Oklahoma City, they play in all the gyms around the city.

I found her head over here. Her body was blown into the next yard.

I am blown away by how much talent there is in central Wisconsin. It really is entertaining to see how great some of these people are.

We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, ... We focus on obesity and not on other health habits and other risk factors.

Sarah Chalke

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

What if that thing would have blown right into his eyes or something like that.

Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country.

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

George H. W. Bush

Has the place blown up since he's been here?

Susanna Moore

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

Daniel Bruhl

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

Having worked in Nashville and then seeing the scope of this studio, I was blown away. It doesn't get much better than this!

Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in that way,

Felix Sabates

It comes down to those 25 points. That's what it comes down to. You can say, 'Well we had blown engines.' But everybody else had blown engines. Everybody had wrecks. That's part of racing. The 25 points was not part of racing. The 25 points was robbery.

I think the indictments put this on the national news. But in terms of what the effect is on the race, I think sometimes that gets blown out of proportion. Ethics was already a question in this race.

I think the Nasdaq is playing catch-up, because we have had a full blown correction in most of the major indexes, but the Nasdaq hung up there I think toward participating fully,

I think the guys are all learning their roles now. But we've still got a long ways to go. I expect Livingstone to come in and play hard. It's a division game they want to win, and it's not like they've been getting blown out a lot.

This wasn't the smartest thing for the guys to organize, but my client didn't do that. It was really blown out of proportion.

Kevin Smith

We've gone from getting blown out to being competitive every game. We're not playing like a 5-13 team but like a 13-5 team, and that says something about the character of this team. Character will take you a long way.

Jason Richardson

Huge. We're on a nine-game losing streak. We were playing on national TV. We didn't want to go out and embarrass ourselves getting blown out in the game.

I think we're pretty resilient. And I think our kids are all fighters. We could have been down and out a number of times this year. But we have a lot of fight. Other than our game at Fresno State, we haven't been blown out all year. That's a tribute to the work and fight of this team. It's pretty good for a team that many thought wouldn't five games.

I think it was good for us mentally. We haven't blown a team out in a while, and I think it was good for our confidence.

I think it was good for us mentally. We haven't blown a team out in a while. ... Confidence is sometimes such a fleeting thing. Honestly, this game was probably better for us mentally than physically other than to get the rust off.

Bruce Reynolds

He was the person who went out and picked up the soldiers who got blown up. I have sympathy for him.