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Quotes About Blow

hissing vengeance for her betrayal, but Hollyleaf leaped forward at the final moment, taking Hawkfrost's death blow and saving Ivypool's life.
~ Erin Hunter
It is relatively easy... to determine whether or not a blow to a quarterback was deemed excessive or incidental. So I'm discouraged that there have been a number of games that are influenced - not that the outcomes are in question - but a number of games influenced based on the protection of the quarterback.
~ Troy Aikman
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
~ Gillian Flynn
Coal Town was primed like a john with a hard-on. All they needed was a willing hooker and it would blow.
~ Sharon Sala
She wondered if Howard, if Ken, would ever know love as she knew it. How would it come to them? It comes, she thought, not as affection or admiration, or any sentiment, but as if one suffered a blow, an impact; as if two elements rushed together and became one. It is all one can do to hold up under it. One is changed, and struggles along as a blinded, bewildered, changed being.
~ Mary O'Hara
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
~ Stephen Sondheim
Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.
~ Julie Andrews
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
~ Bernard Joseph Saurin
a demand for money being, of all the winds that blow upon love, the coldest and most destructive.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Relax,' said Gold. 'I know when to tip the butler, and which sleeve to blow my nose on.
~ Simon R. Green
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
~ Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
The gods can make a man ridiculous through a woman, but they cannot make him ridiculous when they deal him a blow direct. The very greatness of their power makes them, in that respect, impotent.
~ Max Beerbohm
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it
~ Maya Angelou
Your eyes are green, too," she muttered. Alaric's scowl turned into a look of concern. "Are you sure you didn't suffer a blow to the head you didn't tell me about?
~ Maya Banks
Stars danced in front of Mandred's eyes. The pain . . . he could barely breathe. A blow to the chest knocked him off balance. A second sent him sprawling. He blinked, trying to see clearly again. The elf was so fast that his movements were blurry, almost ghostlike.
~ Bernhard Hennen
When a well-known creative person such as me is perceived to have created a knockoff of my own previous work, such a perception is a mortal blow to my reputation as a creative person.
~ Saul Bass
There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.
~ Robert Griffin III
Not everything about the Wind was bad. Sometimes it blew through the little voids and crevices of the Statues and caused them to sing and whistle in surprising ways; I had never known the Statues to have voices before and it made me laugh for sheer delight.
~ Susanna Clarke
But faith often helps cushion the blow of our mistakes, and God is always there to help us pick up the pieces.
~ Judith Pella
you could blow on a fire to stoke it, but if you blew on a little flame, it would go out. He headed up into Woodberry
~ Michael Chabon
It was a marvelous idea, and he backed away from it, giving it space; you could blow on a fire to stoke it, but if you blew on a little flame, it would go out.
~ Michael Chabon
The pressure that such a pool of magma exerts on the crust above has lifted Yellowstone and about three hundred miles of surrounding territory about 1,700 feet higher than they would otherwise be. If it blew, the cataclysm is pretty well beyond imagining.
~ Bill Bryson
Trump had gone bankrupt six times and seemed not to mind. Bankruptcy was just another business strategy. Walk away, threaten to blow up the deal. Real
~ Bob Woodward