Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.

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.

Eminem

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

Hilary Swank

I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up.

Hillary Clinton

Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they always begin or end with Washington D.C.

You talk about losing your mind or blowing your mind or being out of your mind, but those things don't necessarily entail a loss of consciousness, ... Similarly, when you lose your consciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, you don't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind.

You're not going to have to worry about water intrusion, wind blowing in and any flying debris breaking your windows.

Robby Ginepri

You never know what to expect with Marat. He can be on fire every shot and blow you off the court 6-0, 6-1, so you've just got to be on your toes.

You only get blown out if you stand there and let people punch you and you don't fight back. That's what happened to us.

Max Cleland

Young men and women are dying and being blown up at the very moment the American people are going the other way,

Gillian Jacobs

The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.

Harold Perrineau

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.

Harold Pinter

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

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.

For theme parks to become involved in Halloween, it's kind of a natural fit because it's something that is so easily translated into a live experience. We're able to take what you expect the Halloween experience to be and blow it up a thousand times.

Jeremy Affeldt

If I start this year, I'll be throwing my cutter a little bit. And I'll blow the dust off my changeup and bring it back.

Pat Robertson

If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer. I mean, you get through this (book), and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up.'

If I didn't blow two motors, he wouldn't have been close. It wasn't the motor guy's fault, it was mechanical stuff that broke.

Brian Roberts

If I didn't blow out on that one, I ain't blowing out I guess. I was a little scared. I looked up at Jay to make sure everything was still attached.

Brian Roberts

If I didn't blow out on that one, I ain't blowing out I guess.

Steven Pinker

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

Robert Burns

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

Robbie Williams

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

George Clarke

After years of touring, my voice has gotten a lot stronger. I used to just blow out after two or three shows, so I've definitely trained my voice, because I can now hit notes that I couldn't hit before.

Ho Chi Minh

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

Helen Mirren

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

Heinrich Heine

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Hilary Mantel

There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

Steven Seagal

To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

Tom Jones

The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off!

Tommy Cooper

A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too hot.