Top 1200 Blowing Up Quotes & Sayings

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

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.

In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

I can't imagine myself blowing up supermarkets!

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.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Delhiites are mind-blowing. Their enthusiasm and fervour pumps me up to give my best shot. They value my music.

I don't like the whole blowing the candles out ritual... blowing their germs all over the cake. If I want to catch something on my birthday. I don't want it to be from the cake. If you know what I'm saying.

There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.

I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.

We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.

There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

What's the point of blowing up if you can't give back to the people who helped you blow up?

One of the first jokes I wrote was this nail salon bit that ended up blowing up on YouTube. That's kind of what propelled me into standup.

I always thought when I was 22 something bomb was gonna happen, then when I was 22, System started blowing up in like '96. Not blowing up really, but I started putting it into fruition. '96 is when people started noticing us, then '97 was when we got signed.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn't care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don't know where to find these people. Do you?

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Amazon has a good track record for blowing up industries, and fashion needs to look at what has happened to music, publishing and media.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

One of the biggest issues with renewables right now is the fact that if the wind isn't blowing, if the sun isn't shining, we don't have energy. Many people are working on storage technology so when the wind isn't blowing, we can use the energy stored in our giant batteries, essentially. But what happens if we don't have enough stored energy?

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

Informing people about the world's problems opens up the possibility to address them and change them. Anything else is simply willful ignorance. I mean, what the hell should we do? Sit around blowing up balloons? Watching Disney-sponsored movies? I don't think so.

Be honest with yourself about what you're blowing off. A little cancellation here or a bow-out there can add up... but only if you refuse to acknowledge your actions.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

Avatar' is very mind-blowing - or eye-blowing, maybe - especially in 3-D.

After I dropped 'Pull Up,' thats when I started really blowing up.

When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.

Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.

I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

I can't get through the year without getting kicked out or blowing something up.

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.

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind." Clint's morning voice was rich with passion. I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his mind I was blowing, but my mother had taught me it was impolite to speak when one's mouth was full.

I've got a group chat with my friends, and they were telling me I was blowing up on Twitter. I don't really look into those things, though.

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.