Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn Waugh

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Evan Esar

Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.

Erma Bombeck

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

George Washington

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

G. H. Hardy

For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of suggestion to me ever since I knew him, and his death is one of the worst blows I have ever had.

Chris Pratt

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

Chris Isaak

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

George Orwell

The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

George Orwell

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.

Garth Nix

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

Frederick Douglass

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Frank Sinatra

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

Cassandra Clare

Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

George Eliot

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

George Eliot

The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

Christopher Bond

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

George H. W. Bush

By casting their ballots, the Iraqi people deal a severe blow to the terrorists and send a clear message to the world: Iraqis will decide the future of their country through peaceful elections, not violent insurgency,

Fernando Ferrer

honest leadership that doesn't waver or blow with the wind.

Honestly, it's kind of weird playing in the quarterfinals and blowing a team out like this. But if we can keep playing like this, hopefully in the semis, we can make it all the way back to Central.

Brodie Croyle

Honestly, I think this game was better than if we would have blown them out. We were up and then we went down and we came back to win after being down by 11.

Jerry Lewis

He said, 'Listen, can you wait an hour before you blow your head off?' I said, 'Yes.'

Franz Grillparzer

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

Jim Carrey

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

George William Russell

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

George Saunders

I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

Scott Turow

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Gena Showalter

Bomb', Reyes said, not bothering to look up. 'One of ours?' Maddox insisted... 'Hardly. I know better than to blow myself up,' Reyes sighed.

Eric Clapton

I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.

Eric Clapton

I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

Eoin Colfer

Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even the magic can't fix. Other than that you should be all right, presuming you remembered to wear the regulation above-ground micro-fibre jumpsuit recently patented by me. Then again, being a Recon jock, you probably didn't.