Famous quotes containing the word blown:
“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”
—Sir William Osler (1849–1919)
“So the gentle poet’s name
To foreign parts is blown by fame;
Seek him in his native town,
He is hidden and unknown.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Everything is being blown away;
A little horse trots with a letter in its mouth, which is read with eagerness
As we gallop into the flame.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)