Blown Quotes
441 quotes by 375 authors
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The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us.…
— Cornel West
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I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I…
— Tina Weymouth
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She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having…
— Lewis Carroll
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All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game.…
— William Shakespeare
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Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
— Kim Edwards
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The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the…
— Ayn Rand
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I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown…
— Anne Lamott
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And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by…
— George Orwell
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Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
— Margaret Atwood
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In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For…
— Rick Riordan
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She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about…
— C.S. Lewis
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Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but…
— Gregory Maguire
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Babe,' Ranger said. 'Do something with her.' And he disconnected. I called Ranger back. 'No,' I said. 'And I need information on Jelly Kantner. His…
— Janet Evanovich
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Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
— Virginia Woolf
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the…
— Unknown Author
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For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has…
— Henry Miller
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She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.
— Sam Shepard
Who Wrote These Blown Quotes
375 authors contributed a total of 441 Blown Quotes, led by these top contributors: