Blown Quotes by Paul Rodgers, Ralphie May, Dean Cain, Lisa Kleypas, Jules Renard, Carrie Brownstein and many others.
I’d love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it’s not of my doing at all. I’ve blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that – like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in ‘American Beauty’ watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.
In the ’90s, everyone thought we’d solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008.
All my ideas have blown away with the wind.
When I’m on stage, that’s me. It’s blown up, but that’s me.
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.
I remember seeing ‘Gremlins‘ and having my mind blown and seeing ‘Ferris Bueller‘s Day Off’ at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
When Lars said, ‘We want you to be in Metallica,’ I was blown away.
I was 14. I went to see a production of ‘Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,’ and when they got to that final song, ‘If We Only Have Love,’ it was like the top of my head had blown off.
Every time I’ve done a fund raiser, I’ve been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn’t use microphones.
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
Watched Star Wars in 77 and that’s when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.
I’m in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.
It was when ’21’ came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn’t feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.
I know you only get one chance to make a first impression in a city – and I was so disappointed in myself for how that first season in New York had gone. It felt like a blown opportunity. It felt like I’d cemented my reputation in the opposite way that I’d wanted to. Selfish. Not a leader. Not a winning player.
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
I’m always blown away by stand-ups. I’m blown away by people like that who are craftspeople at comedy.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
We love U2, adore their music, just blown away by who they are as artists. They just seem like really good people.
I remember when I saw ‘The Matrix‘ when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.
I was 15 or 16 when I first saw ‘Once Upon A Time In America,’ so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.
I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.
Glamour has been an integral part of showbiz from a longtime and the whole debate about exposing and vulgarity is blown out of proportions.
When I first was exposed to ‘Porgy and Bess’ many, many years ago, I was blown away by it – loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
Sometimes people won’t be able to relate to you if you look like you‘re straight out of a full blown ‘Vogue‘ magazine every time they see you.
I have no choice but to be 100-percent-focused. My two hours get blown up nearly every single day by breaking news.
I can be so blown away by story lines.
I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that’s the real reason that I went into acting.
As luck would have it, my voice is best when it’s kind of blown out.
I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.
I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I’m blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.
Anyone who sets foot into the ‘Watchmen‘ universe and isn’t just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I’ve always considered ‘Watchmen’ to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
I was very surprised when I watched ‘Star Wars,’ and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s me. I’ve been blown up.’ Then, I came back again. I really didn’t know what was happening!
I’d say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that’s a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.
I won’t watch that Amir fight from now until I fight Alvarez. I’m not a blown up 147 or a Miguel Cotto. I’m a big 154 lb., and I’m coming of age and coming to win.
Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought ‘wow‘; she was writing from a black girl‘s perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.
I remember one night, my parents were out at a function of some kind and I had just gotten cable in my room. That was a big deal, and I saw ‘Blue Velvet‘ on HBO. It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think children‘s minds are supposed to be blown, but they probably shouldn’t be watching ‘Blue Velvet.’
This is show business, and there’s room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there’s also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that’s willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you’re going to be like tumbleweed. You’re going to be blown.
There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it’s much easier to say, ‘No comment.’
I have to be so thankful. I have two kids, my beautiful wife, I’m just blown away at God’s grace and God’s faithfulness.
I was blown away by the amazing atmosphere at Moshions’s studio. The amount of work, love and dedication that went into the bespoke clothes felt so personal. It was stunning.
There are these moments in the military where you’re present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can’t get blown away like everything else.
I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
I think with ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It’s miraculous. You look at ‘1776,’ it’s a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at ‘Hamilton,’ and it’s just the faces of America.
I’m from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.
I’m afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I’m afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that’s why I don’t turn on electrical appliances at night.
The performance centre is unbelievable, I’ve had a chance to go there on a couple of occasions in Orlando as it’s only about two hours from my house, and I was completely blown away.
If you had told me ten years ago that I would be able to go and make out with Will Forte one day and then Woody Harrelson the next, it would have blown my mind.
Believe me, I’ve totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don’t care. I think that’s one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.
When I was 14, I saw ‘Terminator 2.’ My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and also so entertaining.
When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn’t believe it was happening. I had to have that role.
The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it’s not great. But I think that it’s a little blown out of proportion.
I had just come off a win in Invicta, then a couple of days later, Dana called to welcome me to UFC and tell me this was how they were introducing a whole new weight class. My mind was blown.
Who can forget the awesome scene in ‘Independence Day’ when the White House gets blown up by aliens? Sure, it looks cheesy now, but back in 1994, it was incredible.
A lot of people say, ‘Wow, a movie on your life, isn’t that exciting?’ Absolutely, I’m blown away that God allowed me to do this but it’s hard – watching the film and being a part of it.
When I heard ‘Rockabye,’ I was just blown away. It had been a long time since I had heard a song that had a message like that in it – about being a single parent and caring for your child.