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.

Victoria Osteen

One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

Nik Wallenda

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.

That was great to see. That was the first home run over the fence in school history. And she hit it real well. This is a big park. It's 225 (feet) down the line. And the wind was blowing in a little. She had to hit it well to get it out.

The 2002 holiday season will likely be a moderate one, not blowing away modest expectations, but not disappointing them either.

We've gotten away from looking at the process of the game. We start looking at the big picture, and we start thinking about (winning all the games in a series). Right now we're blowing this up way too big, and that's what we did during the (losing streak). We need to play the game pitch by pitch.

We've got power in the lineup. What's been frustrating in Cedar City are games where the wind's blowing in. Today, on a nice field and the winds down, we had a chance to put a few out.

We're not at that point yet, but ... it looks like we're going to hit it in June. That is, barring the unforeseen -- God knows who blowing up God knows what -- and if oil manages to stay under $100 per barrel.

We're working in the dark; we don't have an inventory list. We had an elevator guy standing waist-deep in sewage-contaminated water, blowing on the wires so we could short-circuit the elevator and get it working.

Poe Ballantine

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

Pat Patterson

I'm higher than most places on this island, but Im not going to take a chance of a 150 mph wind blowing through here.

I was very surprised by the score. I felt like with the way the wind was blowing out there is no way Flower Mound and Marcus is going to play a 1-0 game through six innings.

When it's real steaming hot like it is today, winds blowing and the wind blows our tents, that's about the worst.

We are blowing past all energy records that have been ever set.

We are blowing hot and cold at the moment and hopefully it will be one of our hot spells tonight.

Jim Furyk

Without a major storm blowing through, I haven't seen them much stronger. I wouldn't call this normal.

We have some work to do. I think by districts, we'll be blowing people out of the water.

Heston Blumenthal

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

On our field, it's blowing left to right. As a pitcher you just have to pitch your game.

I was shocked ... because everybody was blowing it off like it wasn't going to be a big deal.

I don't understand why he's out there putting up threes now. You're blowing out an opponent. I don't think there's a need for him to be out there on the floor.

I expected him to be blowing much harder than he was after pulling up, being that it was his first work in two months.

For us to continue with him and take a chance of blowing his knees out for good wasn't smart. That's a huge loss for us.

Having a team come in with three scores under 40 on a par 36 course is very good. Especially on a breezy day like this when the wind is blowing pretty good, it was a little statement by Lyndon. They came to play.

James Blake

Had a ground-rule double, ... The wind was blowing so hard. I had no chance.

Hitting really is contagious. The last couple games have been high-scoring games, the winds blowing and anything can happen.

Retief Goosen

It can only get tougher out there when the wind starts blowing and the greens dry out.

It certainly seems they're casting a net much more widely than would be necessary to thwart something like the blowing up of the Oklahoma City federal building.

There is a strong wind blowing now and the track is firming up nicely. We put 5mm of irrigation on last night and it was a dead 5 early this morning. We're hoping it will be a good 3 by race time tomorrow.

There is no evidence that milk correlates to blowing noses.

He wasn't blowing at all. The only reason I had someone in the work with him is because he's so lazy. When he worked alone, he went in 1:17.

Thomas Fuller

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.

Gary Karr

He has known for a long time that he would not be renominated, ... What I told him about the state was that the eyes of the Democratic Party were on us, wondering why we let this happen, why it wasn't us blowing the whistle on Martha Bark.