Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

B. F. Skinner

Yeah, I had some wrecks before the HANS that really hurt me. This past year, I had a right-front tire blow out at Michigan, and I probably hit harder than I did at Atlanta. And I went and practiced my Cup car 15 minutes later.

Willie Robertson

The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.

Alice Oswald

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Deborah Tannen

The reaction to the book has been so overwhelming; it has totally blown me away. It's clear there's been a need out there.

Howard Hodgkin

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

Oscar Isaac

I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

We have had a number of call from Royal fans who seem certain that an announcement is imminent including one young girl who said winning a few quid on his engagement would soften the blow that he would never be hers!

Christopher Paolini

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

Gregory Coupet

We could hardly have expected such a match. It's the first time I have suffered such a blow with Lyon. Now, we mustn't get too worried.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.

John Sutter

We have this one opportunity, and if we blow it, we have blown it for good. We've fought for 60 years to get this property, and now we are just going to privatize it and cut out the real potential it has for the public.

Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how things are perceived. The most mystifying thing is why a certain combination of words and melody will blow people's minds, while others - which is 99.9 percent of all songs - fall flat. That for me was the search: to discover how to create songs that had that quality.

Aaron Allston

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

Skrillex

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'

A. A. Milne

Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

Adora Svitak

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

Today's vote deals a severe blow to the ambitions of the terrorists and sends a clear message to the world that the people of Iraq will decide the future of their country through peaceful elections, not violent insurgency.

Today's victory means that thousands of Americans will not have their lives cut short because of the pollution that would have blown through this huge loophole.

Today's jet fuel prices are crushing and could prove to be a knockout blow for some.

Yeah, it was blowing up. Nonstop. All my friends from back home. Guys I haven't really heard from in a while. But it was great.

Retief Goosen

You know, tomorrow it might blow a gale and we'll all be moaning at things.

Scott Ritter

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

Nikki Sixx

When I first started seeing it come together, I was just blown away.

When I first moved to Houston, I had to spend some time figuring out what I wanted to do. The last year has been sort of dormant, but now things have just exploded. It's been kind of crazy how things have just blown up.

We needed the two points that's for sure. There is no question about it, no one is happy about blowing the lead in the third period, but we needed the points. We got the win, and everyone wishes we didn't give up the lead, but we found a way to win the game.

We never go into games expecting a blowout. We don't think, by any stretch of the imagination, that we should expect to blow out teams at the state tournament. We expect every game to be a close game and just hope to squeak it out at the end.

Brandon Roy

We've been getting blown out here all three years since I've been here, even in the win. This has been a tough place to play.

Jason Terry

We came out trying to play our game, but they came out really focused. They had that look in their eyes like it was going to be their night. ... For a minute there, it looked like they were going to blow us out on our home court.

Marcus Johnson

We had to maintain a big lead. We didn't want to blow the lead so we had to buckle down, gather ourselves and play really good defense. And that's what paid off.

We didn't execute on offense, and we didn't execute on defense, and that's what happens. No matter who you play, if you're not doing it the right way, you're going to get blown out in your own building, no matter where you play. It was just one of those days. It's just disappointing.

We have a lot of talent on the perimeter to be able to withstand a blow like that, but any time you're without Lester, with his toughness and his drive and his competitiveness, it's going to hurt.