I’m still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
There was a mission: To match the cover of ‘Extraordinary’ to the cover of the paperback ‘Impossible,’ which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.
The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.
I love to make a living from blowing bubbles.
If you have the wind farms but no transmission, you just have things blowing in the wind.
Blowing people’s minds is one of my favorite things to do.
The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
In ‘John Henry Days,’ I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing across a pair of identical blue shirts he’d hung on a water pipe behind his desk.
The show isn’t about screens, and we don’t have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.
Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying.
A lot of people are blowing Shogun’s fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.
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.
It wasn’t just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who’ve got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man’s guts out.
If you had a really good – battery, it wouldn’t matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
I was very, very young, living in India. I’d been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lovely feeling you have when you’re about to nod off. I remember the yellow curtains of the room blowing in the wind and feeling blissfully happy and content.
I don’t think it’s blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that’s gone. The commentary is lacking.
I wasn’t expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don’t even remember making is blowing up.
I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I’m going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.
I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star.
The suicide bomber’s imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people’s lives.
A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that’s when they start knowing you.
I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn’t been a pop star blowing anybody’s mind.
My iPhone was blowing up with notifications that I had became a superstar overnight. It changed my life and I was hiding after that to avoid unnecessary talk.
Randeep Hooda is a fantastic actor. His presence on screen is mind blowing.
I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie ‘Die Hard.’ I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, ‘I wanna do that.’ It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don’t have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I’m blowing out candles gives me hives.
My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids’ parties.
Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I’m used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
For people to even think that I’d be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.
You find a lot out about people when they’re blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.
What’s the point of blowing up if you can’t give back to the people who helped you blow up?
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
Everytime I put a dance video out on social media, my fans love it, and the reaction I get online is mind blowing.
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society – the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that’s what this is.
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father’s lifestyle.
It’s lucky that my life outside of work is so mellow; I’m really a homebody and a hermit, so I don’t have to worry about blowing my voice out.
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.
We see so much violence in films, whether it is Bollywood or south films. People are shown blowing up each other onscreen. It’s like a seed that is planted and you keep feeding it with small doses. It’s cancerous and does affect society.
We come from New Orleans, so everything is emotional – for, once the music takes over, and we start blowing, we go into a different zone that takes over our whole body.
I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.
Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
Who knew I was blowing my Achilles?
If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that’s really funny.
I know that’s definitely the way for me to run races – instead of trying to burn up at the front and blowing up, it’s always better to be passing people at the end.
You’d be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If the tradewinds are blowing, it gets chilly and sometimes you don’t catch a wave for an hour.
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.
A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I’ll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I’ll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we’ll start working on them right away.
I read that all dogs have wolf DNA in them, which seemed preposterous because my dog, Tucker, is… afraid of plastic bags blowing in the wind. I thought, ‘How can Tucker have wolf in him? How can this be?’ So I started researching it.
