Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lillian Russell

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

Lakhdar Brahimi

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

Paul Mooney

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

Paul Hornung

Because if it didn't work out, I didn't want to blow the whole day.

Joe Sakic

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Jodi Picoult

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

John Green

After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

If EA blows it, gamers will look for other experiences from other companies,

I don't want to say all is lost, but it's going to be a lot of work to get us back by 2012. Maybe 2016 is more realistic. But this is terrible for our sport and for women. It's a huge blow to all of us.

I don't think they'll press him very hard because they don't want to blow the nomination.

Doc Rivers

He's one of the few guys, especially as a rookie, that when he's on the floor, at least to some degree, you breathe, ... Usually when rookies are on the court coaches don't breathe. They hold their breath. But he doesn't play that way. He's not going to blow you away with flash. He's just going to blow you away with solid basketball.

Ron Gardenhire

He's not going to carry that with him. He learned over the past few years to just blow things off. It's over with. You're not going to do anything about it, so you move on. He's fine.

He's got a fire to him. He's out there just blowing people up.

How is that making the border safer? When did you ever see a Mexican blow up the World Trade Center? Who do you think built the World Trade Center?

I cannot see any justification for the continued blows being delivered.

Richard Roundtree

I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields." ()

John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields." ()

John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row." ()

In many cases it was a very severe blow to those ranchers, but cattlemen are used to rolling up their sleeves and going to work and that is certainly what is happening, they're not looking back, they're looking forward.

Mark Richt

I'm confident he'll do a good job. I think we'll be OK. But losing Sean is definitely a blow for us.

I'm blown away. . . . I wasn't expecting anything like this.

If you don't know your algebra, you'll blow the lights and ruin the scene.

If the wind wasn't blowing I'd set up a dish.

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.

Richard Engel

If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be convenient for rebels to say, 'It was the Americans.'

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.

David Dreman

If you play it out long enough it blows up,

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.