Blow Quotes

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. (Aesop)
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. View quote
Norman Mailer
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. View quote
Ani DiFranco
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. View quote
John Dryden
The first blow is half the battle. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. View quote
E. E. Cummings
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. View quote
F. H. Bradley
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. View quote
F. H. Bradley
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. (Simone de Beauvoir)
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Anton LaVey
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. View quote
William Cowper
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed. View quote
William Butler Yeats
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow it is for him who has done a deed to suffer. View quote
Aeschylus
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. View quote
Jim Morrison
Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. View quote
William Wordsworth
The budding rose above the rose full blown. (William Wordsworth)
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. View quote
Vitruvius
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like. View quote
Émile Zola
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. View quote
Edward Young
Sometimes,” he said, "I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities. View quote
Jack McDevitt