Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Kiedis

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

Alicia Keys

I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.

Alice Walker

Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

Anne Lamott

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

Anna Akhmatova

But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud...

D. H. Lawrence

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

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

Alexander Pope

On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

Alexander Pope

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

Don DeLillo

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.

Dylan Thomas

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

Dorothy L. Sayers

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

Anais Nin

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

Chuck D.

You know, it's nothin' quick overnight. If anything happens to you quick, you need to start questioning that. You know, you hear young people go, aw, I'm gonna blow up. You gonna blow up but with a controlled explosion. Don't just blow up all over the place.

Donald Glover

To all my fans who's saying Donald Glover about to blow, just give me six months so you can say I told you so.

Dale Carnegie

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

E. B. White

When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.

Amos Lee

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

Andrew Dice Clay

I never go see a comic. The only one I'd ever really want to see is Don Rickles. He might be 80 years old, but he blows everyone out of the water.

That was a nice garbage goal. I like that. I credit the referee for not blowing the whistle too early. He was in good position.

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.

That's the question, certainly, for all our clients on Wall Street. They're resigned to Clinton getting re-elected, but the real issue is if it's not by 10 points, but by 18 or 19 -- if it's the latter, then I think certainly the House will go Democratic, ... The Senate is a tougher case to make, but in a blow out, even the Senate could go.

I was pretty much blown away by the enthusiasm and the passion I saw coming from the administrators, the staff and the teachers.

A.J. Burnett

I was really blown away how J.P. spoke about the things he had in mind for this team.

Jay Haas

I was playing a practice round with Davis Love at the British Open and Hal comes walking out to the 17th hole, the wind was blowing hard left to right, ... I hit a 4-iron to the green and Davis hit it on. When we got to the green, Davis said, 'You think Hal was impressed with that?' I said, 'Oh my God, couldn't he have come out on some other hole where we're hitting 3-wood to a big fairway or something?' We laughed.

Karen Miller

I was blown away to know it was something I could learn to do. I have cut hundreds and hundreds of stencils since then.

I was blown away. It was through the roof.

I was blown away. It's all about enticing people in.

Will Smith

I was blown away by the Big B and I want to be known as Big W.

John Whitaker

I was blown away by it. We only do human-related sites, but I've never seen anything this old.

I was more than obsessed. I was inside this guy's mind. There was so much material it would blow your mind.

Miles Davis

I was minding my own business when something says to me, ""you ought to blow trumpet."" I have just been trying ever since.

I wasn't really worried about it, ... Maybe I should have been, (but) I thought it would all blow over, and didn't see it as a catastrophe.