Blown Quotes
441 quotes by 375 authors
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He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would…
— Julian Barnes
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Then why are you crying?†“Because of you!†I beat my fists on his chest. “Because I love you, and I don’t know what to…
— Richelle Mead
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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace…
— Mark Twain
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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational…
— Mark Twain
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If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you…
— Aleister Crowley
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I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out…
— Ray Bradbury
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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a year and a…
— Bill Murray
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I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was…
— David H. Koch
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It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into…
— Giles Duley
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If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There…
— Vusi Mahlasela
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I can be so blown away by story lines.
— Michelle Dockery
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening…
— Henry Rollins
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The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
— George William Russell
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Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture…
— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
— Sebastian Coe
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People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.
— Michael Gambon
Who Wrote These Blown Quotes
375 authors contributed a total of 441 Blown Quotes, led by these top contributors: