Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

James Cook

The dead grass and pine needles from last year serve as fuel for the fire. With the wind blowing the way it is, an ember from a small fire can blow dozens of feet and spark a larger fire.

Aaron Allston

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

Skrillex

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'

A. A. Milne

Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

Adora Svitak

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

West Aurora is a good team. If we had gotten blown out, that would have been really bad. But we battled 'em.

We've blown so many games this year. Good teams don't let up when they have a lead. We did that tonight.

Edward Fitzgerald

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head

E. B. White

What you see is what you're going to get all the time. Running on the field, throwing the football, joking around, going to the movies. I don't know if he's ever really serious, other than blowing the whistle a couple of times during the season when the tempo isn't right at practice.

We are dealing with people who have a tendency to blow themselves up and it we know they have a significant number of weapons and explosives,

Andrew Strauss

We are not going to blow them away, the wicket is quite slow,

We are not going to blow teams out of the water this year like we have in the past. This is one of the top conferences in America, and you can tell that with guys spending more time in the gym, that they are dedicated to taking on the new challenge.

When the wind's blowing like this I'm sure they've never seen this much wind, and I think they have some young and inexperienced kids.

Where do all these kids who want to blow themselves up come from?

Today's jet fuel prices are crushing and could prove to be a knockout blow for some.

Yeah, it was blowing up. Nonstop. All my friends from back home. Guys I haven't really heard from in a while. But it was great.

Retief Goosen

You know, tomorrow it might blow a gale and we'll all be moaning at things.

Scott Ritter

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

Nikki Sixx

When I first started seeing it come together, I was just blown away.

When I first moved to Houston, I had to spend some time figuring out what I wanted to do. The last year has been sort of dormant, but now things have just exploded. It's been kind of crazy how things have just blown up.

We needed the two points that's for sure. There is no question about it, no one is happy about blowing the lead in the third period, but we needed the points. We got the win, and everyone wishes we didn't give up the lead, but we found a way to win the game.

We never go into games expecting a blowout. We don't think, by any stretch of the imagination, that we should expect to blow out teams at the state tournament. We expect every game to be a close game and just hope to squeak it out at the end.

Brandon Roy

We've been getting blown out here all three years since I've been here, even in the win. This has been a tough place to play.

Our chimney was blown off and part of our roof was damaged, and we had some water damage. But there have been many more people shaken than we are, of course.

Mark Hanson

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

Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world physically apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put the world's pieces back together again.

Our scoreboard is blown down, and our lights have to be checked out,

Our coach kept telling us to stick it out for 40 minutes. After getting blown out at Stanford, it took a lot for us to come back and regroup, but we did that.

Joe Glenn

Starting tonight we are going to blow some crowd noise into our stadium to try to get us up to speed in regard to the noise of the Swamp.

Some growers have lost 100% of their crop, a blow from which they may never recover. This is going to wipe some growers out.

That doesn't mean it will blow tropical storm force winds for six hours or 12 hours. It could be one minute or three, but it means if you have awnings that can't withstand tropical force winds, you should take them down.

Reggie Bush

My parents leased the house, just like any normal family would. It's kind of funny how this whole story is getting blown out of proportion.