P. J. O'Rourke

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

American Comedian

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Clergyman

Ginger Zee

I loved watching the base of those thunderstorms, the billowing tops of the cumulonimbus, the lightning that effortlessly lit up the lake and the sky. It was gorgeous, so energetic. I was in love.

American Scientist

Benoit Mandelbrot

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

French Mathematician

Marilyn Monroe

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

American Actress

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

German Writer

Describes situations that look or feel dramatic, often used metaphorically for emotions.

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Often used to describe how fabric moves in the wind or when someone moves quickly.

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Indicates something is large or expansive; more than just a puff or a cloud.

Implies Size

Commonly used in the context of accidents, indicating a loss of control.

Associated with Disasters

The presence of billows often shows that something is happening or working.

Sign of Activity

 undulating landscapes, transplanted body parts and billowing clouds of demons, Kahlo has often been associated with Surrealism. But while surrealists used dreamlike images to explore the unconscious mind, Kahlo used them to represent her physical body and life experiences. Two of her most-explored experiences

Frida Kahlo: The woman...

 You can see that in this male here. First of all he's big and imposing. Male geladas are about twice the size of the females. If you're gonna be fighting all the time, it really helps to be big. And they may look even larger by this billowing cape

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 Filled with terror, Pandora clawed desperately at the air to direct them back into their prison. But the creatures surged out in a gruesome cloud. She felt a wave of foreboding as they billowed away. Zeus had used the box as a vessel

The myth of Pandora’s...

 today I'm using it to create permanent billowing voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings and cities around the world I was an unlikely person to be doing this I never studied sculpture engineering or architecture in fact

Taking imagination...

 are normally very simplified. I try to refine them down to very simple forms. But the paintings become very complex, because I think the fields that are supporting them, they're billowing, and they're interpenetrating,

Tom Shannon: The painter...

 I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet, used the same way for centuries. Today, I'm using it to create permanent, billowing, voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings in cities around the world.

Janet Echelman: Taking...

 Look at anger itself. It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm. We think we could sit on the cloud, but if you go there, it's just mist. Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger,

The habits of happiness...

 The black smoke that you see billowing out of these chimneylike structures is also mineral-rich fluid, which is being fed off by bacteria. And since the discovery of these deep-sea vents,

This ancient rock is...

 holding my moms like the other reaching out to explore the world her skirt billowing above me it's a comfort I can't describe because it's pre verbal i

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 the fantastical Northern Lights billow and twist all winter above the Brooks Range

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