Blow Quotes - Page 32

• You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

  Mort Sahl

  Darkness, Want, Curse

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

  John Knox

  Office, Touching, Earth

  "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

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• The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.

  Primo Levi

  Strong, Sea, Chance

  "Bear Meat" by Primo Levi, www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2007.

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Iron, Skulls

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• A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.

  Lois Ehlert

  Men, Wind, Leafs

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• Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

  Katherine Boo

  Children, Vanity, Doctors

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

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• Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Being Yourself, Heart, Fate

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• Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Wages, Strikes, Interest

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Wind, Ears, Saying Nothing

  Thomas De Quincey (1852). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis”, p.175

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• If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.

  Matt Dillahunty

  People, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.

  Tony Hancock

  Mourn, Behinds, Knows

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• A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

  Fred Hoyle

  Yards, Pieces, Boeing

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

  Jim Croce

  Real, Wish, Overcoming

  Song: Operator

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• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?

  Noah Feldman

  Rights, Self, Names

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• The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off!

  Tom Jones

  Thrill, Pants, Sailor

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• You'd be so lean, that blast of January
  Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
  I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
  Become your time of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Might

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• I don't have concussion problems. I have got a problem with people giving me traumatic blows to the head, that's what I have got a problem with.

  Dean McAmmond

  Sports, People, Giving

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• Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

  William H. Gass

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Pride

  William H. Gass (1997). “Finding a Form: Essays”, p.179, Cornell University Press

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• The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Animal, Past, Men

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull market is typically a blow-off, whereas the mania runs wild and prices go parabolic... There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Running, Moving, Training

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• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Blessing

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.47

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• A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

  Frank O'Connor

  Men, Wind, Men And Women

  Frank O'Connor (2014). “Collected Stories”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.

  Chuck Barris

  Dream, Gun, Games

  "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

  Terry Richardson

  Jeans, Who You Know, Holes

  "erry Richardson Responds to Sexual Harassment Accusations, Defends His 'Provocative Work'"y Amanda Hess, www.slate.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

  Emily Deschanel

  Children, Thinking, Creating

  "Emily Deschanel: ‘Creating a Child Blows My Mind’" by Anya Leon, celebritybabies.people.com. September 19, 2011.

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