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Quotes About Puffing

We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, 17 SUCCESS advertisement and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was said that Mrs. Campusky's ovaries were like popcorn poppers and the desert heat kept her puffing up with a never-ending pregnancy.
~ Douglas Clegg
The stairs aren't challenging enough anymore? he asked. Antonio laughed. Challenge has nothing to do with it, Jer. I'd say it's the big bad wolf huffing and puffing at her door up there.
~ Kelley Armstrong
IN THE LOBBY of her building, people fresh out of the wind were huffing and puffing like swimmers just crawled up on shore. She
~ Alice McDermott
The trash talked on such occasions was the more vexatious to Lydgate, because it gave precisely the sort of prestige which an incompetent and unscrupulous man would desire, and was sure to be imputed to him by the simmering dislike of the other medical men as an encouragement on his own part of ignorant puffing. But
~ George Eliot
The sight of me puffing and straining apparently amused him to no end.
~ Ilona Andrews
I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.
~ Carrie Nation
That's the difference between me and a lot of rappers. So many are unfit, just puffing all the time.
~ Dizzee Rascal
For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.
~ le carre john iv
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
~ Dan Brown
When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.
~ Dennis Lehane