Top 363 Blow Quotes

Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don’t know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense – but if you don’t know that there’s a bomb and it just blows up, then it’s just a surprise.

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.

Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books… you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.

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.

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It’s crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone’s perception of the band.

I tend to hoard, and hate to shop unless it’s a blow out sale, or a sample sale.

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

He would take the blow so you didn’t have to.

I’d look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn’t bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn’t need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you’re uninsured, it can bankrupt you.

Anything can become a big tune in Scandinavia because people decide what they want to listen to. So I think that’s very motivating because songwriters can really think outside the box. A great song – whether or not it’s radio-friendly – can really blow up here.

Losing against rivals is always a blow to the morale.

It’s definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.

‘Elizabethtown’ was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It’s not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in ‘Elizabethtown.’ It wasn’t, like, a savage blow.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I’d hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you’re there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly… then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.

A knock-down argument; ’tis but a word and a blow.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

Scrambling, when no one’s around, getting down, getting out of bounds, taking a glancing blow, those are all fine. You can do that all day long.

I’ve always said I was born in the storm. I just had to find a way out of it, find the clearing, and believe the clouds would blow away and the darkness would become something else.

As a player, you just pick up your kit, go out, and train or wait for the ref to blow the whistle.

I think there’s a fear once things start to blow up – as the people say – that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, ‘Today is what I have.’

I’m not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience’s hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

When we play a team I know we’re going to blow out or anything like that, I’m not as motivated.

Two women? God, man. Well, I’m still living. So clearly I must’ve gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don’t think it’s time to blow my cover now.

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

Losing is a tough blow to take.

I mean, I’ve done college basketball, a horse race, a bunch of different things and they’d blow by but golf has a frenetic pace of bouncing around from shot to shot and green to green and, in essence, acre to acre over this huge plot of land with over 150 players who are their own team.

I’d go to clinics and hear coaches say, ‘You block with your helmet. You tackle with your helmet.’ I’d say, ‘No way! You block with your shoulder. It’s a lot stronger blow, and you don’t risk nearly as much. Why be stupid?’

I think when you love a child, it’s a different kind of love. You think, ‘I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn’t possibly love any more, I’m going to blow up.’ And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can’t love any more.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

I don’t like going into the basement. I’m always afraid that something’s going to blow up.

We cannot continue to blow up the federal deficit and place our children and grandchildren in greater debt to countries like China.

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don’t open fire on you.

In film, there’s so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn’t quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

I defy any woman that doesn’t feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I’d love to blow up all the birth certificates.

If things don’t go well, the manager is on his way because it’s such a blow if you drop into the lower divisions.

I’ve never had the luxury – or the nightmare – of having something just blow up and be this huge success and then have everything thrown at you. Being ‘the best friend’ lessens the responsibility, ’cause I can still go do another movie after something that doesn’t do well.

The only thing that can blow away the Michael Jordan sad face meme, is the Floyd Mayweather knockout meme. If Floyd Mayweather got knocked out – knocked out to the point where he is ice cold on the ground – I think that’s the one meme that can just overwhelm the whole Jordan issue.

I’ve always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

It used to be said all horse players die broke – you can’t beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6’s and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren’t against you, but a good hit, and it’s hard to blow that back.

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.