Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are a lot of kayaks and one-man (canoes) out there when the winds are up and the swell is up. If they get tumbled or lose their paddle or their kayak blows away, how are they going to get back in?

Audra McDonald

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

We, as a community, live as the wind blows with visitors; they bring the money into the city, ... When they come, they require protection. The way I see it, it is an insurance premium I pay so that visitors and residents can be safe.

We wanted to deliver the first blow. We didn't want to take any blows tonight.

This (securities settlement) certainly blows away any we've seen so far.

To that point, the team's mood was a lot like the weather--kind of gray. But then Justin comes out in one of our first races of the day and blows the field away. That set the tone for the rest of the day.

Bellamy Young

Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.

Mark Hanson

Over the weekend, they did steam blows to verify the cleanliness of the boiler.

Champ Bailey

I respect his game, but he knows when the whistle blows we'll go at each other's throats.

It feels sweet. We knew it was going to be a heavyweight fight. We were delivering blows back and forth.

With the way the wind blows out there, if you try to play long ball, you'll be in trouble. We'll probably be a team that doesn't have a lot of power, but makes a lot of contact, plays good defense and has a strong pitching staff.

With the team we had at that point, we were fine. All the changes really, really killed us. We've been dealt blows in the worst positions.

Greg Biffle

The 9 car is the fastest car here. If something doesn't happen to his car or he blows the right-front tire and hits the fence, then he might be the car to beat.

Jeff Francoeur

That's the thing that blows me away, ... I'm 7 years old when this thing starts happening. John Smoltz is one of their starting pitchers. Now here I am, on the team myself, and John's still here. I told him that's when you start to think about retiring.

The little girls will bring their hats and get them autographed even by the contestants, which blows the contestants away.

William Wordsworth

Another race hath been, and other palms are won./ Thanks to the human heart by which we live,/ Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears,/ To me the meanest flower that blows can give/ Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Public corruption, as you've seen in New Orleans and Louisiana, is something that has dealt in the past crippling blows to our government to provide assistance.

Digital sales are finally replacing physical losses. If someone gets a distribution right without paying for it, that blows a hole in the digital marketplace.

Kimmie Meissner

This blows the rest of the programs out of the water.

They set fires in a city that has no water, which blows our minds.

They were hungrier than we were. When they came out they kind of hit us in the mouth and we never hit back. When you play a team like Texas, you just have to keep receiving their blows and keep firing back at them.

Jeremy Stoppelman

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

They get out there, one guy blows a pitch pipe and they start singing.

Every donation was from the community. It's unbelievable down here. It just blows my mind, the kind of support we have.

Some decisions I am not just sure on and when the whistle blows I am not sure what is going to happen.

One guy just hangs on the horn as he blows through the city. This is not only a quality of life but a health issue.

Once the ref blows his whistle, I yell out, 'That's a terrible call' and then I start booing with everybody else.

The things that he does offensively just blows you away. And he does it within the flow of the game, which makes him special. He doesn't force anything.

Mark Ruffalo

Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.

Markus Persson

The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.

Brad Smith

What people don't realize if they're burning grass and the wind blows it into another yard and if you catch a house on fire, you're responsible for that house.

We got 194, which is a high performing chapter. It just blows my mind. Hardly any small chapter would get that (score).

The worst case scenario . . . the flag blows in my face and I fall off the edge of the stage.