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Quotes About Blowing

the dead leaves blowing about his legs like brittle, papery demons sucked dry of all power, impuissant and doomed to crumble.
~ Randall Silvis
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
~ Ramakrishna
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
~ E. M. Forster
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~ James Dent
I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.
~ William H. McRaven
That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me—that dark fire, that music …
~ Richard Matheson
Some of the best demigods have gotten their start by blowing up toilets.
~ Rick Riordan
So court often involved a power struggle between two more or less equal forces, as when a sailor found that the wind was blowing his boat one way while the tide took it another.
~ Ken Follett
Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about. Then the seedheads rattle, the seeds fall out. Then there's even more language waiting to come up.
~ Ali Smith
He was blowing up the bladder.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
And yet the winds of time were blowing; heedless of mankind they blew to and fro in the world preying upon beauty; and no one could escape them, not even children so newly born as to be still unnamed.
~ Dino Buzzati
We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.
~ Jamie Hyneman
The clouds hung like dark, blowing tapestries in the gaps of the hills.
~ Louis L'Amour
Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about.
~ Ali Smith
The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
~ William Butler Yeats
I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
~ Joe Cronin
The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.
~ Ron Fairly
But there's a wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
~ Rupert Brooke
A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
~ Margaret Atwood
All that time, blowing away in the summer breeze. It was daisies for love though, and we did that too
~ Margaret Atwood
In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
~ Colson Whitehead
It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
~ Michael J. Fox
the steamboat left the harbor and it was something in this world, the paddle thundering, the smokestack blowing, and people lined up on the top deck waving handkerchiefs. I watched it
~ Sue Monk Kidd