Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

I hear the wind a blow I hear the grass a grow, And all that I know, I know. But I will not speak, I will run away.

Luis Aragones

I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary blow which threw us off-balance.

I promise to be the referee, to blow the whistle on candidates or campaigns that try to tear down other Republicans.

Robert Solow

Investors are worried that something is going to blow up tomorrow -- they just think it's a crazy world.

Hopefully we've blown the cobwebs of travel and all the other things involved with coming off the Christmas break away. It wasn't the prettiest (victory), but I was real proud of our kids. I thought everybody got an opportunity to get in, thought everybody was able to contribute.

I don't think it blows up the deal. What it does is underline how difficult the process remains.

I dont know how fast it was coming, but you could hear it coming from a distance. It was blowing its horn,

Harrison Ford

I didn't just wake up one morning 63 years old, so it's not a real blow to me. It's been incremental. I've been able to accommodate.

Irving Layton

how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.

Because the ground is saturated, trees will get blown over pretty easy.

Greg Grunberg

It doesn't matter what religion you are. If you come to Israel you'll find history that will blow you away...Everywhere we go we end each day saying, 'That was the most incredible day we've ever had.' It's been quite a trip.

Harold Evans

If Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for content online, he will succeed in so far, but no further than what he provides that is unique and can't be found anywhere. It doesn't seem to me that if he wants to charge it will be a blow to universal freedom and liberty of mankind.

Gregg Popovich

I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.

Mark Jones

He's still in a state of denial. He didn't really want to come forward and let the guys down. He didn't blow the whistle. I did, and I'm proud of it.

The last thing my client wants to do is persuade this court to release him and then blow the whole thing off.

Bill Cosby

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

Lisa Ling

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

There are some pretty rotten things going on in our prisons. We've seen prisoners sleeping in vans, a big increase in smuggling contraband into prisons, we've heard the suggestion that criminals should be prison guards, seen budgets blown and prisoners accessing violent movies.

The only problem comes when a hurricane moves in too close. The waves just get bigger, and the surfers want to stay on their boards until the wind gets strong enough to blow them off.

The only preparations I made were getting ice, batteries, and canned foods. I also place my lawn furniture inside so that the wind will not blow it away.

There are deserters with guns and this concerns us. I don't want to blow this out of proportion.

Michael Robinson

After every game they've lost, the next game they've come out and blown teams out.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The most important thing when you are going through that kind of period is the guy standing in front of the team needs to remain a pillar. He can't be blowing in the wind, and he didn't. He kept our eye on the ball. He was like a veteran coach.

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.

Jim Calhoun

We went through the motions like we're thinking we're big time. We could have been blown out of the building.

Martin Campbell

Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?

Lindsey Graham

body blow to the president at a time when he doesn't need one.

Brandon took it home. Everyone was blown away.

Broken noses do occur in the game, unfortunately. He kind of got a blow right in between the facemask and his helmet. We'll know more about that once we get an idea from the doctors.