Blow Quotes - Page 7

• What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

  Sade Adu

  Kissing, Thrill, First Kiss

  Song: Never as Good as the First Time, Album: Promise

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• When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
  name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

  Mark McGwire

  Names, People, Ruth

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• If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Girl, Learning, Knives

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• To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Confidence, Vulnerable, Achilles

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• When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.

  Byron White

  Amount

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• Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
  Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
  Let the piano's martial blast
  Rouse the Echoes of the Past

  W. S. Gilbert

  Past, Echoes, Piano

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't carry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child. . . . Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Stupid

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• The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Fighting, Men

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• It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.

  Orison S. Marden

  Men, Meat, Doe

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• Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

  Luther Burbank

  Fighting, College, Men

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• I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
  And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
  Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
  And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Work

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Home, Science, Wind

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• how seasonably
  leaf and blossom uncurl
  and living things arrange their death,
  while someone from afar off
  blows birthday candles for the world.

  Irving Layton

  World, Afar, Mortality

  Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Wind, Dancing

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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• To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
  Render a kiss or blow
  But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
  Offer all the hatred in your heart
  For you were slaves and he enslaves you

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Kissing, Giving

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• I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
  It vexes me to choose another guide:
  Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
  Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Wind, Mountain

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• I have desired to go
  Where springs not fail,
  To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
  And a few lilies blow.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Spring, Lilies, Paradise

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Mind

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• Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a man truly blinded by his hunger; this man achieves an awareness of the working-class condition only when the poor man and the proletarian coincide under the gaze (and the blows) of the police.

  Roland Barthes

  Men, Class, Political

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Successful, Luck

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
  Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
  Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
  My heart remembers how!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Rain, Heart, Wind

  1894 Songs of Travel (published 1896), no.45,'To S.R. Crockett (in reply to a dedication)', stanza 1.

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• The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
  Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
  So to the brave man every land's a home.

  Ovid

  Lying, Home, Men

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• O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

  Dante Alighieri

  Light, Heaven, Mind

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.163, Indiana University Press

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• It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

  Stendhal

  Husband, Revenge, Doors

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.140, Tyché

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• O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
  To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.

  Louise Bogan

  Dream, Horse, Air

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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