Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Gabriel

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.

Peter Gabriel

Once the flames begin to catch the wind will blow it higher, oh Biko, Biko.

Peter Gabriel

Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

Phyllis Diller

To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.

You don't have that here. We want to blow that stereotype out of the water.

Henry Rollins

I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.

Henry Rollins

It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

Henry Rollins

The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

Helen Humphreys

There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.

Helen Gurley Brown

Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

Hedy Lamarr

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

Nancy White

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.

Milarepa

Many times I felt I was on the razor's edge. I never quite knew which way the wind was going to blow when I asked a question to [Osho].

Miles Davis

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Margaret Weis

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Luis Suarez

There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.

John Cena

Well John Cena's like a pinwheel, so you can go ahead and blow me.

John Cena

This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me.

You can play semantics and say that the operating system is shipping in 2006, but if consumers can't buy it until 2007, PC manufacturers don't have it to sell to them. This blow falls on the partners.

The Liberals are being blown out of the water. The only thing we're discussing now is whether the Conservatives are going to form a majority or a minority.

Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

The kid's been doing it all year. He's slippery and he can burn you. That first run he had, I just kind of dropped my jaw in watching him make a cut and blowing away the secondary.

James Rollins

I was all set to blow some crap up.

James Rollins

Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance to the dangers of today. It reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest. Put this novel on your must-read list-anything by Harp is now on mine.

Tamar Braxton

If you want to blow up hang around me because all of my friends we would hang out and next thing I know they are major worldwide superstars.

Swami Vivekananda

All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.

Penn Jillette

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

Marlo Thomas

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

Maurice Sendak

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

Maureen Dowd

President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

Gary Carter

The frustrating events involving some Jockey Club charges concerning my conduct, which were dropped then re-formed, have dealt a fatal blow to my chances of securing more than a couple of regular rides this year and made my decision inevitable. I'm proud to have ridden winners all over the globe including most of Europe, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, India and Singapore.

The closing of the Emerson plant was a blow to the community as well as the many talented employees who lost work with the shut down of that plant.