Blow Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Common, Trouble, Belly

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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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• I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow.

  Dane Cook

  Girl, Nice, Kissing

  "Dane Cook, Global Flavor". Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2009.

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• I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't. [...] But I am not a bully.

  Chris Christie

  Party, Issues, People

  News conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  Jacques Roumain

  Rain, Angel, Two

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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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• A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.

  Louis C. K.

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Giving, Enemy, Victory

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• The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Nature, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• I am one, my liege,
  Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
  Have so incensed that I am reckless what
  I do to spite the world.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Buffets, Reckless

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Rachel Dolezal stepped down from her position as president of an NAACP chapter after it was revealed that she was a white woman pretending to be black. Now her brother says he knew about it but she asked him not to blow her cover. Unfortunately, her cover had already been blown by God when he made her a blond-haired, blue-eyed white lady.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Brother, White, Blue

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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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• The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Golden, Pins

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• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Kings, Rain, Men

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham's speech on the Excise Bill in the House of Commons (March 1763), as quoted in Lord Brougham "Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume I" (p. 42), 1839.

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• Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  White, World, May

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 481

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• We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Women, Ideas, Light

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• Autumn
  Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
  As the equinoctials blow.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Autumn, Gay, Games

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “October”

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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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• Once upon a time there were three little foxes
  Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses,
  But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
  And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

  A. A. Milne

  Once Upon A Time, Foxes, Three

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

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• Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wind, People, Different

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 11,

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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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• Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 3, song (added 1850)

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Lakes

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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