Famous quotes containing the word blown:
“So the gentle poets name
To foreign parts is blown by fame;
Seek him in his native town,
He is hidden and unknown.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”
—Sir William Osler (18491919)
“Taffeta phrases, silken phrases precise,
Three-piled hyperbole, spruce affectation,
Figures pedanticalthese summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
I do forswear them.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)