Blowsy Quotes

#1. I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

Graham Kerr

#2. The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.

Dorianne Laux

#3. Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.

William Mortensen

#4. He'd watched a falcon fall down the long blue wall of the mountain and break with the keel of its breastbone the midmost from a flight of cranes and take it to the river below all gangly and wrecked and trailing its loose and blowsy plumage in the still autumn air.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. The mown grass is growing again nearly to our knees; we will take a second crop of hay from this field, rich and green and starred with moon daisies, buttercups and the bright, blowsy heads of poppies.

Philippa Gregory

#6. Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

Julie Burchill

#7. I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act.

Michael Keaton

#8. As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.1 - THOMAS JEFFERSON, July 5, 1775

Jon Meacham

#9. You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Denis Waitley

#10. There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Victor Hugo

#11. The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

Rajneesh

#12. It was as if hardship bred indifference.

Anthony Ryan

#13. We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.

George Orwell

#14. There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

William L. Jenkins