Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yasser Arafat

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

Vusi Mahlasela

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

Zach Braff

It was really starting to get pathetic, everyday they would come in looking for one thing or another. 'Zach, can you give me some acting tips?' 'Zach, will you let me blow you?' 'Can I have some cash?' That's when I made the call, that's when I decided seven was enough

Zach Braff

It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.

William Golding

If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

William C. Bryant

Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.

Walter Scott

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Rick Riordan

Do you always try to kill people when they blow their nose?

Veronica Roth

A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

William Hazlitt

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Yoko Ono

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.

Zinedine Zidane

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

Zadie Smith

This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.

Restarting a refinery is a very delicate operation. These things can blow up. They are complicated, old and cranky.

Richard Shepard

Pierce just fully went for it, ... I said early on, 'If he doesn't give 110% percent this is not going to work. It's not one of those roles where you can charm your way through. Pierce is an incredibly accomplished actor, and he's very funny. I don't want to sound like some asshole blowing smoke, but the fact is that it's true, and the movie is much better for it.

People who use it are just blown away. This is not something that just the lunatic fringe does.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.

George Martin

In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course, we used bowls of water too. And bottles with straws, blowing them into the water, to get the effect of submarines surfacing, that kind of thing. It was nice to do because it, we were all being very inventive. And it was fun, it was like a party almost.

In the second half we tried to run but we couldn't hang on to the ball. We need consistency and tonight we didn't have that. We had a chance to blow the game wide open in the third quarter.

Michael Mandelbaum

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.

In the case of fire, we will stop the pullout and strike a big blow in an operation at division level,

Butch Harmon

I had heard of Tiger, but I had never seen him play, ... Like everyone else, I was immediately blown away by the raw talent.

If you have a max and go with it on the first round, you might blow the competition away, but you might also be shooting yourself in the foot and overpaying.

If you put a pop can in the freezer, it will expand and blow up. It's the same principle as underground. The colder the liquid gets, it expands and will break the container it's in.

Tim O'Connor

If you're in an outdoor event, for example let's say a soccer game, and the person next to you is smoking on a normal bleacher and if the wind is blowing in your direction, it's like someone sitting next to you in a restaurant. Now, if the distance is farther, obviously the secondhand smoke would diminish or the side effects would diminish.

If you blow through a straw and pinch one end, what happens? ... If the filter is clogged, the burner will still be burning at full capacity, but it won't push as much heat through the house.

If you own one of these homes, it's very important to have up to date electrical wiring. If your morning routine is to start breakfast on an electrical stove while your wife blow dries her hair and waits for her curling iron to heat up, that right there is enough energy to power the entire house way back when it was built.

James O'Shaughnessy

If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged.

Mark King

If you look at us per capita, we just blow everyone else out of the water.

In other words, it's the perfect experiment. I mean, you blow something up and then catch every particle and explain where everything went. It sounds like an impossible thing!" ()

O. Henry

I just wanted to get out there and blow the cobwebs out.

I just think (this) has been blown out of proportion.