Famous Quotes & Sayings

These people got their houses blown away, ... They want New York pizza. It's the least we could do.

Philippe Petit

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

Bill Self

That kind of got blown out of proportion how that went down. There's no hard feelings about that deal at all, but I think in a way it might have helped us.

Maria Sharapova

It's so windy today I'm really glad I had a piece of chocolate cake last night or else I would have been blown away out here.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Audra McDonald

When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.

Andrew Mitchell

We've been playing well enough to win all year. We know we can play with everybody. We've only been blown out a couple of times.

Sarah Chalke

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

Carl Davis

Every time I try to talk to a police officer, I just get blown off,

Burt Bacharach

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

The only thing I said to them before the game was if you don't bring energy, you'll get blown out. The kids proved to themselves they can play. The key will be, can we keep this up every night?

The only thing I'm disappointed with this year is ending the regular season on a four-game losing streak. But it's not like we're getting blown out. We've struggled with free throws and turnovers, and we'll get better. I just hope it happens this weekend.

There is no reason in this world this tire made it. It should have blown five laps ago. I knew it was going to be bad. Ten laps into the race, I could feel it. I just slowed down and kept her straight and didn't spin the tires.

Reggie Bush

We have a case, a situation that's been blown out of proportion due to maybe my public image. There is nothing to be worried about from our perspective. We've done nothing wrong.

What I want to emphasize is that this is a victim of a homicide. This is a woman with children, with family members, who was sitting in a car and had a gun put to her head and her brains blown out.

This whole thing has just blown up ridiculously.

This whole thing about the hurricanes has gotten somehow blown out of proportion from what the original request was, ... How it went from that to what transpired yesterday, I don't know.

Kevin Garnett

We knew that if we came in here and played around or didn't play with the right mind set, we were going to get blown out. We came in and took some of their 3-pointers away.

We keep sinking our hopes with self-inflicted wounds. Once we eliminate the mental mistakes and blown assignments, we'll start seeing the wins.

We didn't get the big hit yesterday. We could have blown them out of the water.

Bryce Harper

It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

Bill Engvall

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

Larry Brown

We have been getting blown out in a lot of games because we have been getting so far behind. The last three we have had a chance to win which is a good sign. They needed that because they are trying.

David Bolinsky

When I was four years old, some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

You hate to lose any game, but I don't mind getting blown out because it's a little easier. You're more relaxed, at least when you know the end should be near.

We were only disappointed because the kids worked really hard and didn't come away with a win to show for it. But I heard the kids say that they had never been so satisfied in a loss. We could've been blown out, but we came out and went toe-to-toe with them for 95 plus minutes.

James Blunt

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.