A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Gavin Rossdale

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.
Shannyn Sossamon

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.
Peter Criss

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.
Jeff Gannon

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
Emmitt Smith

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.
Brett Favre

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
Abu Bakr

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
John Pomfret

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.
Marlo Thomas

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.
Matthew McGrory

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.
Jerry Bruckheimer

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Edward Fitzgerald

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.
Marc Bolan

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
Norman Mailer