Blow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.
-- L. William Seidman -
If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi -
The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.
-- Lala Lajpat Rai -
But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
-- Lanford Wilson -
For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.
-- Larry L. King -
I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.
-- Leon Croizat -
It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If Europe were to become once more the Europe of bankers, of fat corrupt bourgeoisies we should prefer Communism to win and destroy everything. We would rather have it all blow up than see this rottenness resplendent. Europe fights in Russia because it [i.e., Fascist Europe] is Socialist. what interests us most in the war is the revolution to follow The war cannot end without the triumph of Socialist revolution.
-- Leon Degrelle -
Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.
-- Leon Trotsky -
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
-- Leon Trotsky -
Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.
-- Lesslie Newbigin -
My Bridgestone tire blows out on a day that Ferrari wins? Smells too convienent to me...
-- Lewis Hamilton -
The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.
-- Libba Bray -
Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
-- Lillian Russell -
Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.
-- Lindsey Graham -
The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they don’t like it. The Federal Election Commission can’t do anything about it.
-- Lois Lerner -
Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.
-- Lola Ridge -
The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out.
-- Lord Buckley -
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off
-- Lorna Luft -
You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.
-- Lou Reed -
It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.
-- Louie Giglio -
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
-- Louis Aragon -
Even If I have two three days off, you still have to blow that horn. You have to keep up those chops... I have to warm up everyday for at least an hour.
-- Louis Armstrong -
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
-- Louis Armstrong -
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
-- Louis Armstrong -
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
-- Louis Armstrong -
A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.
-- Louis C. K. -
Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.
-- Louis Eric Barrier -
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
-- Louis Kronenberger -
It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.
-- Louis MacNeice -
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
-- Louis Pasteur -
If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson -
O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.
-- Louise Bogan -
A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.
-- Louise Bogan -
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty...
-- Louise Brooks -
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.
-- Lucian -
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.
-- Lucretius -
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.
-- Lucretius -
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!
-- Luigi Russolo -
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.
-- Luther Burbank -
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.
-- Lydia M. Child -
It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
-- M. R. DeHaan -
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
-- MacDonald Harris -
I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
-- Maggie Grace -
hey Lynch I didn't leave that car for it to sit while you just blow III
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
-- Malaclypse the Younger -
Shabazz led chants of ‘death to Israel,’ ‘the white man is the devil,’ and ‘Jihad.’ He also said, ‘Kill every ***** Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, ***** old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!’
-- Malik Zulu Shabazz -
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.
-- Man Ray -
I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.
-- Marc Bolan -
Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.
-- Marco Rubio -
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
-- Marcus Garvey -
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
-- Margaret Deland -
Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.
-- Margaret Mead -
The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
-- Margot Asquith -
I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread his arms wide. His eyes sparked with humor. "I. Am. Invincible." "Until a happy wind blows," I said. "Curse those sunny days." "The bane of your existence." "The scourge of society." "The downfall of decency." "And boring, too. Nothing like a good gale to put a spring in your step." Kade grinned.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are....
-- Marianne Williamson -
one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff -
Follow your heart wherever it takes you. Nobody knows where the wind blows. No one can say.
-- Mario Frangoulis -
Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come
-- Mario Puzo -
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.
-- Mark Akenside -
You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant
-- Mark Andrus -
I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.
-- Mark Cuban -
All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.
-- Mark Strong -
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
-- Marlo Thomas -
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
-- Marlo Thomas -
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.
-- Martin Caidin -
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.
-- Martin Scorsese -
We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .
-- Mary Caroline Richards -
The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.
-- Mary Howitt -
Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.
-- Mary Karr -
True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
-- Mary Pipher -
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you do when  you fail. Do you run from Him and go clean yourself up a little bit before you come back into the throne room? Or do you approach the throne of grace with confidence? If you don't approach the throne of grace with confidence, you don't understand the gospel.
-- Matt Chandler -
If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.
-- Matt Dillahunty -
Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.
-- Matt Rees -
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
-- Matthew Arnold -
I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.
-- Matthew McGrory -
I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.
-- Matthew Sweet -
Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know.
-- Maud Lindsay -
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.
-- Maureen Dowd -
He'll pinch a cigarette between his fingers. He'll take a drag, blow that drag between his lips. He'll look at the firl with eyes the colour of the sky before it turns black and he will see heaven, and the pictures of all those other girls floating inside his head will blow away like the clouds of the cigarette and he'll see only the girl inside himself and the world will stop.
-- Maureen Medved -
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
-- Max Brooks -
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
-- Maya Lin -
You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?
-- Meg Cabot -
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.
-- Mem Fox -
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
-- Michael Chang -
Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .
-- Michael Ende -
Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.
-- Michael Herr -
I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.
-- Michael Jackson -
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,
-- Michael Ondaatje -
The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
-- Michelangelo Antonioni -
In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
-- Michelangelo Antonioni
