Blown Quotes
441 Blown quotes by 375 unique authors
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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
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...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown…
— Christopher Moore
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Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.
— Rachel Vincent
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
— A A Milne
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The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a…
— Ezra Pound
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... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in…
— Matthew Woodring Stover
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He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
— Jean Rhys
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What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart
— William Shakespeare
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I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.
— George Carlin
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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?
— H.G. Wells
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He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders…
— Jon McGregor
Who Wrote These Blown Quotes
375 authors contributed a total of 441 Blown Quotes, led by these top contributors: