Quotes About Poof

#1. The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.

Charles Simic

#2. I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

Joseph Epstein

#3. Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.

Francisco Costa

#4. Life is funny, isn't it? Just when you get used to something, poof! It changes.

Indiblogger

#5. A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.

Geoffrey Wood

#6. You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

Anne Carson

#7. Larry said that Michelangelo was a poof, so I wondered why he'd sculpted a guy with a really tiny cock. But I know when you go to old houses, the doorways are much smaller, 'cause people were shorter then, so maybe cocks were smaller too. It makes me glad I wasn't born a few centuries ago.

J.L. Merrow

#8. I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

George W. Bush

#9. My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

Victoria Legrand

#10. Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

Mark McKinnon

#11. Yes, Uncle Ryan! You said you wanted me to make you an uncle. Poof! You're an uncle of a fluffy puppy. - Lilianna Gregor

H.R. Willaston

#12. Don't you have a class this morning, Georgie?"
Day mumbled something that sounded like
"Ancient History of the Near East and Greece."
"Poof!" scoffed Everhart, flourishing his fork,
"Come with me and see the Near East.

Jack Kerouac

#13. But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

Eddie Bracken

#14. that could (poof!)

Tracy Brogan

#15. You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.

John Green

#16. The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Uzo Aduba

#17. I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

Barbara Ehrenreich

#18. It was like pulling one loose thread on a sweater, and suddenly, poof, no sweater! And you're standing naked in a new hotel with terrible lighting.

Alice Clayton

#19. You want money... Okay... Now few dollars... then few... then few... and poof everything is gone. That's call failure!

Deyth Banger

#20. One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Michael Grant

#21. But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don't have to care. I can make this all just go away. Poof. I can stay in this book and then this book gets to be real and everything else gets to be fake and who cares anyway.

Andrea Portes

#22. Descartes walks into a bar, and the bartender asks "Would you like a beer?" Descartes replies, "I think not" and poof! he vanishes.

Various

#23. I'm more of a science-fizz-bam-boom-poof girl than an artsy-fartsy type.

Angela Cervantes

#24. Creativity. Inspiration. We worship them here, Donald. They are our guidance, and we revere them. Do you understand? Revere them. So many people think that writers merely sit down and string together words and poof! a piece of writing. Not so!

David Bischoff

#25. I haven't always been this weak person; this broken woman. I used to dream, and when I did, I dreamt big. I had plans, plans of a future so bright it would blind you. I can still remember the day those dreams, those grand plans, and that future as bright as the sun went poof.

Harper Sloan

#26. Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention ...

Peter McWilliams

#27. That's the thing about love, my dear. It comes when you least expect it, when you least want it, and when you have sworn to yourself you're done with such foolish dealings, POOF! There is Mr. Wonderful standing right in front of you, stealing your heart away.

Kate Danley

#28. Where germs go?"
"Sunrise," I said. "Poof."
Butter's voice sounded bewildered. "Vampire germs?"
"The tiny capes are a dead giveaway.

Jim Butcher

#29. Look, are we almost there? Or are you just taking me in circles in order to molest me? I'm tired, I'm pissed, and I really kind of hate you, so could you just take me to my quarters and poof away somewhere?

L.J. Kentowski

#30. I thought of myself so little that I began to worry that I'd been the only thing keeping myself in existence ... and now that I wasn't the center of my attention I'd disappear, poof into thin air, and no one would ever know.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#31. I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium!

C. JoyBell C.

#32. Sometimes these cars have Idaho plates. And I think, What the hell is a car from Idaho doing here? Then I remember, That's right, we neighbor Idaho. I've moved to a state that neighbors Idaho. And any life that might still be left in me kind of goes poof.

Maria Semple

#33. When I would feel down ... I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day ... Poof! They would all disappear.

Kim Young-kwang

#34. A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Anne Sweeney

#35. There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.

Noel Fielding

#36. Poof," Ross said. "I'm still here." "You smell something?" Kirk asked. "Smell what? My fuckin' nostrils froze up long ago.

Keith C. Blackmore

#37. We're all swimmers in the river of time ... Just you wait, sister. Spending your days anticipating when you'll see your lover, anticipating your next paycheck, next party, next episode of blah blah blah - and poof! You're thirty-nine and wondering where the hell the time went.

Lily Gardner

#38. Yeah I took the spot she gone POOF

Nicki Minaj

#39. Why would John bother using windows or doors like a normal person? Why would he bother to say hello? Just poof. Crunch. Bye.

Meg Cabot

#40. Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

Graham Norton

#41. A layer of fine powder coats his skin.
"My lungs are turning to concrete," Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting.
"So are my eyes. How do I always get roped into these things?" Avery coughs and pats Rob's back in sympathy. A poof of dust billows from the contact.

Laura Kreitzer

#42. You want to poof it or ride back with me?

J.R. Ward

#43. A lot of issues need to be swept under the carpet
and poof, along comes SARS. Whether or not its appearance was coordinated, up front, to coincide with these scandals and tragedies in Iraq, one thing is for sure. SARS has been used as a smokescreen to keep the global public diverted and in fear.

Jon Rappoport

#44. My damned little siren laughed at me. "I see your language has improved."
Poof - like magic, the anger disappeared.

Katie McGarry

#45. Actually it's this easy to explain: When your time's up ... poof ... your time is up!

Timothy Pina

#46. When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into energy - poof! it disappears. Creation began with energy. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.

J. Vernon McGee

#47. I told everyone you didn't go poof, but they just looked at me funny," said Maddie. Cedar shook her head. "You said, 'Tiny crow crowned unconfused with a cloud.'

Shannon Hale

#48. I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

Rick Riordan