Puff Quotes - Page 7

• Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

  Daniel Kammen

  Rights, Law, People

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• You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

  Martial

  Life, Dying, Praise

  Martial, John Patrick Sullivan (1987). “Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands”, p.301, Univ of California Press

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• Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Odd Things, Jam

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon
  But small, appear most long and terrible;
  So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,
  Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
  Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
  Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
  Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
  Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
  Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
  While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
  And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Fate, Son

  "Dramatik Works".

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• The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

  Anita Diament

  Real, Hollywood, Mary

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• When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Rap, People, Records

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• You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.

  Queen Latifah

  Kids, Blow, Games

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• As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Strong, Real, Reading

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, America, Hands

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• People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

  Missy Elliot

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• When I see Puff in a video kissing someone, it's freaky and I know it's freaky for him to see me do a movie love scene, but as far as him forbidding me to do them, that's bull.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Kissing, Movie Love, Video

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• It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

  Todd Starnes

  People, Secret, Want

  "Back to School: Let the left-wing indoctrination begin" by Todd Starnes, www.foxnews.com. September 1, 2015.

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• The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

  Louis Menand

  Stories, Outcomes, Ends

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