Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanilla Ice

I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.

Bonnie Bedelia

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

Billy Porter

I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.

We're not going to blow teams out. I say that to these guys all the time. The only way it's going to happen is if everybody's clicking. I think defensively, it's going to keep us in the game. We've just got to work to get other people going.

Alessandro Nesta

We still have some hope. It was a real blow to concede a goal like that but we have to do our work and hope they will be fair in the other game.

We still haven't been blown out. We're right in the thick of things.

Robert Graves

To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.

Antawn Jamison

To blow a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter, that's an embarrassment. There's no other way to put it.

B. F. Skinner

Yeah, I had some wrecks before the HANS that really hurt me. This past year, I had a right-front tire blow out at Michigan, and I probably hit harder than I did at Atlanta. And I went and practiced my Cup car 15 minutes later.

Willie Robertson

The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.

Alice Oswald

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Tiger Woods

We were all curious how it was going to hold up playing fast. With the wind supposed to blow 20 mph tomorrow, it might make things a little interesting.

We definitely get away from the offense. Everyone is just running around and wants to do it on their own and not executing. But that's not how it works and you end up getting blown out.

Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how things are perceived. The most mystifying thing is why a certain combination of words and melody will blow people's minds, while others - which is 99.9 percent of all songs - fall flat. That for me was the search: to discover how to create songs that had that quality.

Deborah Tannen

The reaction to the book has been so overwhelming; it has totally blown me away. It's clear there's been a need out there.

Howard Hodgkin

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

The project is going forward. I've built buildings this size before, and it just blows my mind - my worst-case scenario was $2.5, $2.6 million.

Traditionally, when the European integration process gets hit by a blow like this, they regroup and usually use it as a spur for progress.

You look at the golf course and think it's easy because it's short. But it's not easy, and when the wind blows like it did today, it sure isn't easy.

Takeshi Kitano

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

Muhammad Ali

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

Jessie Cave

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

William H. McRaven

I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

Vusi Mahlasela

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Naya Rivera

For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

Dick Cheney

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

Jorma Taccone

We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?

Lee Myung-bak

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

Adam Savage

How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!

Adam Savage

Let's blow some stuff up.

Aesop

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

Aesop

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

Aeschylus

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.