Puff Quotes
144 quotes by 126 authors
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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
— T.H. White
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When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy.…
— Patrick Demarchelier
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At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after…
— Carl Bernstein
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I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little…
— Bob Denver
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There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for…
— Daniel Kammen
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
— Martial
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Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of…
— Elif Safak
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Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.
— Joel Salatin
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Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
— Harold Nicolson
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw…
— Sharon Olds
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Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is…
— Kathleen Flinn
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
— Sophia Loren
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I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of…
— Albert Camus
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Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more…
— Barbara Pym
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
— Thomas Browne
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Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace…
— Brennan Manning
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Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda,…
— Douglas Coupland
Who Wrote These Puff Quotes
126 authors contributed a total of 144 Puff Quotes, led by these top contributors: