Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.
My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.
I invested in a blow-dryer. I do a very simple blow out that I’ve gotten quite good at. I’m ambidextrous. I often wonder why people’s hair looks lopsided. It’s because it’s hard to reach both sides of your hair.
I have this unbeatable move where no matter what happens I can catch the line – it’s the number one thing I practice – so my philosophy there is martial arts based, never putting myself in a position where I can receive a lethal blow. I haven’t missed catching the line for over fifteen years.
I just love movies where they blow stuff up, in your face, and it’s so excited and cool.
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.
The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.
I pay less attention to my hair then probably anybody that I know. I get out of the shower, I towel dry it. I, like, blow it off and then I just run my hands through it and away we go. It’s just what it is.
And I would say that the main thing that I faced as a female in this industry was being underestimated. But being underestimated isn’t always a bad thing. It’s nice to get out there and blow people’s minds when they think you’re not gonna be any good.
If you’re going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you’re going to blow it, blow it big.
Charge-taking can be one effective way to affect the rim, but the whistle’s gonna blow a lot.
My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.
Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.
I really love muscle cars. I don’t think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.
The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs of campaigns.
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
The sun doesn’t always shine; the wind doesn’t always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate.
The computer systems that we have on our cars when we go test just blow my mind.
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
I always had problems with making singles because I’m not a singles type of guy. I never needed radio to blow me up. I’m a street legend.
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it’s an extension to your arm.
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.
Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.
There’s something about football that’s exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you’re trying to blow people up.
Someone told me I looked like a young Tonya Harding recently, as if ‘young’ would soften the blow.
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
The years of imprisonment hardened me… Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn’t be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life… there is no longer anything I can fear.
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don’t have a lease to clean up.
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
I’m a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to ’83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all the stars, and you have to make sure when you blow the whistle against those individuals that it’s a foul that you basically can’t let go.
Even if you’re a seasoned professional multi-tasker, your body, mind, emotional life, and growth potential can get a blow from over-committing. Take a look at what’s on your plate if you’re swamped, and you can surely find some space for yourself even when you feel trapped.
When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we’ve got to blow the whistle.
I once saw professional soccer up there in Seattle, the Sounders. I went and saw that. I’m not a big soccer fan, but watching a live game is unbelievable. And then I went to Italy and saw a soccer match; it’s something everyone should do once. It’ll blow your mind.
We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they’d just blow all their money.
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.
I was trained in seismic prospecting. We’d drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.
There are times when we’re testing an actual explosion, and then there are times when we blow stuff up just because we can.
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.
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.
It can be a real blow to our egos when we feel as if our hard-earned degrees don’t matter as much as our ability to get the morning coffee orders right.
We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.
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.
I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified and singing through power electronic stuff. I played those shows, and it would blow the lid off of everybody, and everybody would flip out.
Social media can blow anything out of proportion.
There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister’s head using alginating plaster.
I’ve been able to not only fulfill my dreams and become a world champion, but there’s been so many different opportunities that just blow my mind and opportunities that I never thought I’d have.
Some officials are afraid to blow the whistle with 20,000 people screaming and yelling at them. Some officials love to have the crowd go against them.
If you get taken out after 20 minutes it’s a big blow to you.
It’s an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.
I think that women are often underestimated – our suggestions, our advice, our leadership style. I think one of the reasons that that happens is women are much less likely to blow their own horn and brag about everything that they’ve done.
The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.
My characters are not thinking about the act breaks. They’re thinking about what they need to do to move forward. As long as I focus on that, the story starts to progress. As soon as I think, ‘We’re 20 pages in, something better blow up,’ we’re in trouble.
