Best Blown Away Quotes

As for family values, they are whatever they are – some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don’t waste my time, don’t B.S. me, I wasn’t born yesterday.

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you’re blown away–

I’ve interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I’ve really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don’t ultimately know where they’re going. That’s terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

When I first started seeing (the show) come together, I was blown away. It is unbelievable. And to see Vince singing, and behind him girls hanging by chains, and Harleys on the stage and the pyrotechnics going it’s like, this is what I want to see in rock ‘n’ roll.

You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.

I’m too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.

People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I’m blown away by this.

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I’m listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see ‘Fantasia’ and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that’s done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.

The Coca-Cola Mean Joe Greene ad is one of the most famous commercials of all time, so I was blown away when they asked me to be in this new spot.

I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was just totally intrigued, because everything he played I’d never heard before and everything he did I’d never seen before. I was so blown away by what he did.

I picked up On The Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch (in that order) in high school. I was blown away. The writing was amazing and the places it took me was even more far out. It opened up new avenues of thinking for me and so I went down the beaten road.

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You’re just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

Went to the paper shop – it had blown away.

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 still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

In the early ’80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I’m fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

When was about 16 or 17, I was living in Beaumont, Texas and Carlos Montoya came to Lamar College. I went to see him and I didn’t know what flamenco was. But when I saw him play, I was blown away that one man on one instrument could make all that sound. I’d learned a lot, but that made a big impact. I had intuition for it. In about three years I learned most of what I know now.

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord’s name.

I’ve seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they’re not films. They’re images. They’re flashes. They’re many beautiful images, lots of things to look at. They capture you. But it’s not a film. It’s not something that involves you in a story. They go to cinema now to be blown away by the effects.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

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.

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.

I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.

Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of – certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters – not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I’m always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those.

In five years, you’re going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan’s transformed economy.

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you’re blown away by a particular musician. If I’m playing the Brahms concerto, it’s crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

I got on a plane. I remember when I got on the plane, the talk was, you know, they’re checking Dale out, that it’s more than what it looked like, but I still didn’t think it would be anything more than maybe some injuries. Then I landed at home and my phone just lit up. I started getting those messages.I mean, I was blown away. I couldn’t believe it. I was just in shock.

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.