Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Ari Parker

Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again?

N. T. Wright

When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.

Mort Sahl

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

Monica Lewinsky

She has slimmed down since the height of impeachment, her thick blow-dried hair as shiny as Russian sable and her creamy cleavage, as historic in its own way as Mount Rushmore, was quite wonderful to behold.

John Wooden

I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle, pull you from the court and put you on the bench and talk to you before I would put you back in.

Marianne Williamson

Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are....

Michael Caine

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

Mary Karr

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Michael Chang

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

Michelangelo Antonioni

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

Michelangelo Antonioni

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

Madonna Ciccone

I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.

Lucretius

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

...Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.

Lucretius

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

Louis Kronenberger

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Lorne Michaels

Everybody blows their first money.

Michael Jackson

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Michel de Montaigne

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Mack? He's strong. He's out there every time blowing up the linebacker.

Guru Nanak

Let him not blow a fire with his mouth, let him not look at a naked woman, let him not throw any impure substance into the fire, and let him not warm his feet at it.

Lower energy prices will cushion the blow to the economy from the higher prices so far. Psychologically, it helps the consumer and that means the hit to the economy will not be as great as feared earlier.

Losing Wesley is a further blow but we have every confidence in the players who will come in. They will do a job for us.

Losing Mike Powell was a disaster, a big blow for us, but what pulled us through was our team spirit,

Losing is a blow to the gut, no matter how it happens. A loss is a loss. We, the team, didn't get the job done and here we play as a team, win or lose. Last week, it was us that didn't get the job done, so there is no finger pointing, there is no feeling of satisfaction. We all need to go out and work hard and find a way to get a win.

Losing Craig was a big blow to us.

Gene Edwards

Scott's the 'go to' guy for Between the Lions. The guys from Boston and New York were blown away by him.

Todd Woodbridge

Seventy-eight candles is a heck of a lot of candles to blow out, but luckily I had a great partner to help me out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

So I said to myself, you know, 'I'm tired of the same things.' You know. Jumping over car hoods at three in the morning. And then going up to someone and says, 'I'm back.' You know and then blow him away or something. So all of this is great. But I mean, eventually it gets old.

She was very close to 12-to-15 of our seniors. It was a tough blow to our program, no question.

We're looking at very strong northeast winds and that's going to blow snow around and create drifts, and that's going to combine to make travel ? especially Sunday morning ? hazardous.

'Fox lies' has become a favorite mantra of the Left, yet there is a reason Fox News blows away the other cable networks in ratings and is more trusted as a news source than any other television network.

Obviously I saw him trip. I thought he was going to get up. He wasn't grabbing anything, and it looked like he was smiling. But when I got to him, he said, 'It's blown out.' He knew.