Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Shanahan

It's such a playoff failure for our whole team. This was, really, I felt, a very, very strong team and a very strong potential playoff team that we had built. What a blown opportunity this was by our team.

That front came through and just slammed us. It didn't blow through, it roared through.

That is the question people haven't been burned for 3-4 years, and we'll have to wait until September to see if they'll blow past the stop sign.

TDK and Cisco didn't exactly deliver a blow to the market through negative surprises. But they didn't give any clues as to when the high-tech recovery will happen.

Takis took a painful blow to his knee while Julien got a kick on his calf and it is too early to say just now whether they will be okay for Rangers.

Suze Orman

Structured settlements are a common way for people who have been injured to receive an insurance payout. The periodic payments provide ongoing income and reduce the risk of blowing a lump sum through poor financial choices.

Sunday will get powdery snow, so we definitely could get some blowing and drifting.

It's in a remote location. I would guess there are about 50 to 60 people living there. I think the fact that we know about it will be a big blow to them, mostly because they've gone to great lengths to hide it and have spent a lot of money on it.

It's just 32 minutes of constant pressure with them (Hampton). If you're not mentally focused enough to deal with that pressure, they're going to blow you out; I don't care who you are.

It's incredible. I was totally blown away when I was told it was $15,000 at the end of the night (of the event). Then hearing that it's more, I can never express my gratitude to the people.

It's a massive blow to lose Gareth and with injuries we already have we are now without a right wing.

It looked like a piece of paper blowing in the wind.

Kenny Miller

It's great to be back and it's been a long time coming. Missing the start of the Premiership was a big blow but I feel fit and ready to go and I want to score,

It's hard, but it would be much harder if we were getting blown out by 20 points. Then we would be wondering if we are not good enough, or not doing this, or not doing that.

Morgan Ensberg

It's disappointing to get blown out. Mitre just pitched really well. Offensively, they just got a lot of hits. It was just one of those days where they were on and we were off.

It was obvious even before Katrina made landfall in Mississippi that this storm was going to inflict a monumental blow to the Gulf Coast.

It's very serious. This is a tactic, to blow up a shrine rather than going for the civilian population, which is calculated by whoever did it to foment much larger violence between the communities.

Justin Williams

It's very frustrating. You look at how our team's been playing and it comes down to turnovers and free throws. It's something we're concentrating on for our last two games and the conference tournament. We're close in every game so it's not like we're getting blown out. Our team is fighting hard.

It's time to get over it. I think it's being blown out of proportion by coaches. As coaches, we need to get on with it and get this thing over with. I'm not going to let it overshadow the kids' performance.

Is this another blow to management? I would say yes. But you can't say management was on very steady ground in the eyes of investors.

It took down the stands, the control tower, all of our timing equipment, the public-address system. All that got blown away.

They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away -- Who are the real cowards?

Cris Collinsworth

They couldn't run the football. Their only touchdown came on a blown coverage by the Carolina Panthers. Everybody questioned what would happen without Charlie Weis and if this is any indicator of it, it is going to be a tough season. Tom Brady at the Super Bowl was talking about it last year with us privately before the game and he was nervous about it. You could clearly tell that he was worried about going into this season without Charlie Weis.

Vince Carter

They come at you from start to finish. We expected that, and we knew if we wanted to continue the streak, we had to keep playing, take that first blow and keep competing to get the win.

Michael Leunig

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.

Chris Givens

The two teams combined, the record is blown away. To both do it in the same year is amazing. People talked about that after the split, that it would never get back to that way.

Joe Sakic

The Vancouver thing, you guys are blowing it out of proportion,

They were really able to get on a spurt and score in bunches. They made a lot of shots, and that stretch just ended up blowing it up pretty quick.

Charlie Hodgson

They were off-the-cuff remarks that have been blown out of all proportion. The crowd was on my back in that game and giving me stick. That was all. There's no need for England fans to take it the wrong way. They've been fantastic.

They hit a bunch of shots and had a 12 or 13-point lead and then at the right time we hit four or five 3s, and bam, bam, bam we're right there. If we don't hit those, they probably blow us out.

Melissa Rivers

They just blow the doors off. Now you have women who are more in control of their look.

It was huge for us. After blowing a game on Friday and then getting boat-raced on Saturday, these guys showed some character. They hung in there and they bounced back.

Willie Randolph

It was his first time out after having very little Spring Training. He didn't have a feel for the ball. It was very cold, very slippery day. It was something that got blown out of proportion. I know that he knows that he wasn't trying to intentionally hit anyone. You will see that his command will be better.