Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

That in my opinion would be a serious blow in the sense that he would be a convicted prime minister in office,

Lloyd Carr

That's a big blow to us. Our plans were to play him at quarterback this spring. So we'll have to see how that goes.

Mark Twain

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

Nicholas Sparks

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

Mikhail Lermontov

Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

Princess Diana

One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me

Lillian Russell

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

Lakhdar Brahimi

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

Paul Mooney

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

Paul Hornung

Because if it didn't work out, I didn't want to blow the whole day.

Ken Dryden

It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.

Ken Follett

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Oliver Goldsmith

The first blow is half the battle.

Kelly Clarkson

I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands.

Margaret Cho

As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

She'll probably blow that out of the water, and she's a great fielder at third base.

That's a major blow to us offensively. He looked so good this summer and the first two weeks of practice. We had to redirect our offense. He was going to be a force for us.

That's a major blow to his candidacy and campaign. He needed something dramatic some new dynamic has to happen in the campaign for him to become more of a player.

Billy Donovan

Every time we were ready to blow it open, they hit a three.

Paul Wolfowitz

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, particularly from their close neighbors in Europe who have a great stake in North Africa.

Patty Griffin

God as "he," as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America - "he, he, he." Every time I hear that, it's like another blow against females. It's very radical talk at this point for females to say this kind of stuff, but nationwide, I still hear females referring to God as "he."

Lyndon B. Johnson

Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.

It's a blow because Kyle has been playing well for us. But that's the way it goes with loan signings sometimes, so we'll just have to get on with it.

Joe Borowski

I tried to blow it foul, but it stayed true right down the line.

It wasn't like there was gonna be a breeze that would blow that fog away. That stuff wasn't going anywhere. And if we had gotten a breeze, that probably would have meant another storm coming in, and that wouldn't have been good, either.

Paula Radcliffe

It was good to blow away the cobwebs. It was like a run-out doubling as a training session,

Paula Radcliffe

It was good to blow away the cobwebs,

Michael King

It was always going to be touch and go whether they made double digit growth...It's quite a psychological blow in the short term.

It was disappointing (to blow the lead). We were up 14, and at that point you want to see us close it out and extend the lead.

Joe Borowski

It was a slider that didn't slide. It stayed right there on the inner half. It was a nice pitch to hit. I tried to blow it foul, but it stayed true right down the line.

Pete Townshend

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.