Blow Quotes - Page 18

• I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

  Janette Rallison

  Wind, Broken, Soul

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.149, Penguin

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• Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

  David Gemmell

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Eye, Long Grass, Wind

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.155, eBookIt.com

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• After all, didnt I blow a magnificent career?

  Dick York

  Careers, Magnificent

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• Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Sweet, Hate, Fall

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• Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother, I will come back to Manhattan and blow up the Institute. I will turn Church into a man-eating beast who will rampage through the streets of Manhattan, stepping on mundanes. And I will make you fat. Love, Magnus

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Men, Church

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• Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, Volcanoes, People

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.

  Suzanne Collins

  Country, Might, Faces

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?" She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cutting, Doors, Ideas

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.210, Penguin

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• Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else." I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. "Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Teacher, Giving Up, Heart

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1855, Penguin

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• Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

  Nora Roberts

  Fate, Wind, Ends

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• The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Humanity, Christianity

  "Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations".

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• A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Ferris Wheels, Pushing

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• Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

  Robert Nathan

  Wind, Sea, Flow

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• Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Hate, Fall

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.230, Bantam

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• How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Honesty, Integrity, Lying

  "The Ordeal of Mansart". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1957.

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• Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

  Anne Holm

  Stupid, Hands, Brain

  Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

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• You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

  Corey Taylor

  Regret, Looks, Moments

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• You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.

  Roswell Rudd

  Sound, Cosmos, Ends

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• Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.

  Michael Pollan

  Corn Syrup, Differences, Oreos

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.113, Penguin

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• The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Air, Doors, World

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.305, Macmillan

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• I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Flower

  1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

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• When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

  Tom Waits

  New York, Dust, Cities

  "One for the (Style) Hall of Fame: Tom Waits's Pointed Shoes". www.esquire.com. March 15, 2011.

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• But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

  Irvine Welsh

  Memories, Past, Years

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.86, Random House

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• Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you can shoot three, four, five-under par. But to make up a six, seven or eight-shot lead, that will be tough without the leaders coming back.

  Phil Mickelson

  Thinking, Eight, Wind

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