Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Gardam

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.

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

Sparklers can spark a fire. They may not stand up properly, the wind may blow them into the grass.

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.

Joshua Bell

So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face.

Tell the customer whatever you have to tell them. Tell them if these phone lines are not connected, the receiver will blow up.

Ten to 15 miles per hour is enough to blow this really light snow.

Justin Dentmon

Sometimes the referees get caught up in the game and don't blow their whistle.

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.

Sometimes it was nice cutbacks by the running backs. Sometimes we had some guys out of the gap. It wasn't like they were just blowing us off the ball. When you've got a good cutback runner, you've got to play your gap.

Sometimes it was nice cutbacks by the running backs, ... Sometimes we had some guys out of the gap. It wasn't like they were just blowing us off the ball. When you've got a good cutback runner, you've got to play your gap.

Zach Thomas

Seems like every year at this time I give you an excuse. Then I say what has to be done, and we do it, and the next year there's a different excuse. But what they've done this year is pack the team with so much talent that we won't be able to blow it. We're so loaded that there just won't be any excuses.

Ryan got better as he went along. There were a few pitches early in the game that he would have liked to have gotten back, but he hung in there. He came around. Plus it wasn't great weather for either pitcher, not with the cold and the wind blowing out the way it was.

Sebastian Coe

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Shelton Quarles

Ryan's been doing real well over there in practice for us. I wouldn't have a problem with moving to the strong side, but with Ryan I think we'll be just fine. But losing Jeff is a blow to us.

Zab Judah

Saturday night was a great event and I'm sorry it turned out the way it did. The low blow that was called, I didn't intentionally hit Mr. Mayweather with a low blow. That's why I proceeded to follow with my hook. I was throwing combinations.

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.

Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window.

Thad Matta

Quite honestly, this is exactly what we told the kids was going to happen. We knew kids that were in the third grade when this happened probably weren't going to be punished. We had great confidence in that. It would have been a devastating blow had it gone the other way.

The Saints are doing a terrific job of impersonating the Packers of the first four games. By my count, the Saints have 10 penalties, three turnovers and have missed two field goal tries. As a result, the Packers have scored 35 points in a half for the first time since 1992 and can't possibly blow their lead in the second half. Or can they?

Jason Wright

The roof is blowing off this budget. We're spending money like it's going out of style. Let's put on the brakes and get this budget back under fiscal control.

It would be another blow for him, because right now everybody's wondering where his campaign is.

John Gibbons

It would be a big blow if it's something serious. We're hoping not. But I mean, even if it's nothing serious it's going to set him back. We don't know for how long. I mean, we're pulling for the kid. And if it's something serious, then we've got to make adjustments like we did last year.

It was. To get blown out on national TV by a team we like to think we're better than ... We all knew what the situation was. We knew we had a history of that type of performance after a big game. We wanted to change that, but we didn't.

It was tough out there. It was blowing really good. The greens were really firm.

It was an ugly game all-around. We started with a 12-0 run, and I think the kids kind of slowed down a little bit, thinking it was going to be a blow out.

It was a blow to me. My job is to make sure the building is safe.

Jim Jefferies

It was a blow to lose Steven so early. We need the energy that he gives us.

It was a blow out and looked good; we're happy. I estimate he'll be running five or six yards further than the other horses. But if he takes to the surface, he might just do it.

Haley Barbour

The state has suffered a grievous blow on the coast,

Is it the extremist, or the media, that blow things up

Izaak Walton

I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.

Shayne Graham

I've been in the stadium where all four ribbons on top of the goalposts were blowing toward each other. It doesn't make any sense, but I've seen it. That's just what happens when you've got so many surfaces for the wind to blow against.