When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.
The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.
The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.
The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.
We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
We're really happy. It still kind of blows my mind that people watch the show!
Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.
The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.
