I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.
I can’t live without mousse. When my hair is damp I put it at the roots. When I blow dry my hair it makes it so much bouncier. It gives you shampoo commercial hair and makes your blowout so much better.
For ‘Death Car’ I had three vehicles for the leading lady, because you never know when something is going to go wrong. You can blow a tire or start spinning around and hit a lamppost.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.
You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’
There is no question in my mind that a ‘Brexit’ would deal a significant blow to the E.U.’s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.
The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.
I really believe that I’m gonna blow up. It’s how I feel.
In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
Before you have kids, you can blow up and get mad, then you have kids and they teach you the opposite. You have to be patient when you’re helping – whether it’s with school work or potty training, it’s a whole other level of patience.
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.
I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker… but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
If anything on the car is going to blow up or fall off, you usually see it happen in the 600. But it’s also survival for the drivers because it’s such a long race and it’s usually hot at Charlotte. It’s hard for drivers to feel good for the whole 400 laps.
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.
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
I dare not drink before a gig because I’ll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
It’s great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
In Germany, you can play aggressively, but the referee will always blow his whistle, but in England, that’s not the case. That’s better for me.
It is relatively easy… to determine whether or not a blow to a quarterback was deemed excessive or incidental. So I’m discouraged that there have been a number of games that are influenced – not that the outcomes are in question – but a number of games influenced based on the protection of the quarterback.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
I don’t want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and that is what I am doing.
I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans’ lives.
The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long – very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
There’s no reason your outdoor furniture should look like cheap plastic that will blow over or break in two seconds.
Everybody knows when you’ve got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you’re gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who’s had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.
I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.
I watched people blow up after the XXL cover, and I watched people drown – you know what I’m saying? And that’s not what I’m trying to do.
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say ‘Bless You’.
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80’s, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I’ve learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron.
I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.
As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.
When you become an instrument in God’s hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person’s eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.
So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.
So much of performing is a mind game. You’re memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face.
That’s what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don’t want to blow it.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
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.
The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.
In my experience on ‘New York Undercover,’ where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn’t have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.
I think you have to take everything that looks like a blow and turn it into a triumph. This is where my energy comes from: I just won’t be licked.
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’ve had people hang around me because I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter, and it’s kind of a blow. You start to ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’, ‘What’s valuable about me?’, ‘Is what’s valuable about me that I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter?’
When I start winning big tournaments I don’t think I’ll just win tournaments, I think I’ll blow them away.
Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
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.
Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken – you have absolutely no idea what they’re going to do, which is really thrilling to watch.
There’s times I blow my gasket. One thing I learned is I don’t hold any grudges.
The ship’s transporters – which let the crew ‘beam’ from place to place – really came out of a production need. I realized with this huge spaceship, I would blow the whole budget of the show just in landing the thing on a planet.
I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.
Sometimes, I’m driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road.’ Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
