Blowing Quotes

452 quotes by 372 authors

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs… — Pete Townshend
What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and… — Raymond Chandler
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at… — Bill Bryson
Who was blowing on the nape of my neck. — David Mitchell
I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait… — Albert Camus
I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world… — Henry Miller
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you… — Ian Fleming
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because… — Lois Lowry
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood… — Vladimir Nabokov
To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Timeâ€”the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,… — Ray Bradbury
Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do… — Joanne Harris
All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out. — Richard Kadrey
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and… — Philip Pullman

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