Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can’t handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn’t handle but we’ve dealt with it up until this point.
My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years – I’ve landed a few blows, to be fair – but those old jokes are out of touch.
You have injuries that bother you when you’re not playing. When that horn blows, you don’t feel it.
Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.
Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‘Oh my God – are you Billie?’
The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying ‘Thank you for my childhood’, which still blows my mind but is very sweet.
If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.
A politician is the devil’s quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
The final battle of ‘Eclipse’ kind of blows the socks off everything we’ve seen earlier in the series, because you finally have wolves interacting with humans and vampires in a way that’s really sophisticated visual effects that we’re doing in it.
The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you’re challenging yourself.
‘400 Blows’ was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.
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.
The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.
It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.
I mean, I don’t really take a lot of blows. Since I’ve been 20 years old in the NFL, that’s never going to change in my playing style.
I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you’ve got a real problem.
A lot of wrestlers get guys to the ground in a mixed martial arts fight and think that’s it. But no, we gotta get up eventually and throw some blows.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Sometimes it’s easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
When they’re singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they’re singing all of the lyrics to every song – that blows me away. I don’t know all the lyrics to every song.
It just blows me away that I am on, I don’t know what generation of fans.
Our shoes weather a lot of blows and sometimes a wrong movement can cause them to come apart in half.
I can still take the hits; it’s not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
Sometimes, as an actor, you’re so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you’re really lucky, a few times in your life it’ll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
With every year that passes, the easier I cry. The wind blows and I find myself moved by something.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say ‘Hi’ and have a conversation. But when the helmet’s on, you don’t care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you’re smiling.
I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
The main prank that we play with props is for people’s birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face – that’s always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who’s new.
When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don’t know where it’s going. It’s blowing your mind as it’s unfolding. Then there’s that sensation that you’re actually going to remember the song.
When I step outside and think of the caliber of actors I’ve had the privilege of working with, it just blows my mind.
We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.
I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It’s not about looking great, it’s about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It’s mental as well as physical; if I don’t train, I get very depressed.
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
The whole thing about ‘progressive R&B’ blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that’s why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
I’m into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, ‘Wow, he’s a genius.’ He’s one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he’s out of control, like on ‘Cold Wind Blows,’ it’s incredible.
It blows my mind when they call me the O.G. Flash.
I’m not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don’t have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
As long as I can remember, I’ve always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
You can’t have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
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