Blow Quotes

In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

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.

Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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.

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

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.

I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?