Blow

Famous quotes containing the word blow:

    “Pour down your warmth, great sun!
    While we bask, we two together.

    Two together!
    Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
    Day come white, or night come black,
    Home, or rivers and mountains from home,
    Singing all time, minding no time,
    While we two keep together.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn’t. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line—now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It’s just a corner in pork, that’s all.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)