Blown Quotes
441 Blown quotes by 375 unique authors
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,…
— John Galsworthy
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…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and…
— Daphne du Maurier
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I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared…
— Amy Goodman
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Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you…
— Nora Roberts
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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle.…
— Lewis Carroll
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Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green…
— Conrad Aiken
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I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For…
— Suzanne Collins
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...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
— John Steinbeck
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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out…
— Unknown Author
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A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men…
— Jack Kerouac
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If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown…
— Rick Riordan
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I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.
— Suzanne Collins
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Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of…
— Hal Borland
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His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put…
— Kate Morton
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We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our…
— Amy Carmichael
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...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and…
— Thomas Hardy
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But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in…
— Suzanne Collins
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But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page…
— Sylvia Plath
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I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on…
— Lauren Oliver
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
— Laurie Anderson
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But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay…
— David Mitchell
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The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.
— Thomas Ligotti
Who Wrote These Blown Quotes
375 authors contributed a total of 441 Blown Quotes, led by these top contributors: