Wind Quotes
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. (Quote by - Titus Livius)
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal. (Quote by - Grace Napolitano)
The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor. (Quote by - Mickey Rivers)
If Carrie Ford wins the National I'll bare my backside to the wind, and let everyone kick it. (Quote by - Ginger McCain)
What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? (Quote by - Thomas Malory)
Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. (Quote by - Bible)
I came like Water, and like Wind I go. (Quote by - Edward Fitzgerald)
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! (Quote by - John Muir)
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. (Quote by - Richard Branson)
Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain. (Quote by - Federico Garcia Lorca)
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. (Quote by - Tony Hillerman)
Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
I think at the important moments especially in that first set when I served at 40-40 and I had the wind behind me so I was in a good position, everything was good and suddenly I started making these unforced errors, which were really not understandable. (Quote by - Novak Djokovic)
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide. [Heart of Darkness] (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. (Quote by - Lowell Thomas)
I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. (Quote by - Ornette Coleman)
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. (Quote by - John Millington Synge)
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Thus far we run before the wind. (Quote by - Arthur Murphy)
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away. (Quote by - Klaus Kinski)
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. (Quote by - Sargent Shriver)
Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge. (Quote by - Tom Watson)
I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons. (Quote by - Tommy Shaw)
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. (Quote by - Lawrence Hargrave)
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge. (Quote by - John Dryden)
We could have shown things that were much worse than are actually in the film [on the wind that shakes the barley] (Quote by - Ken Loach)
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted. (Quote by - Rachel Field)
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. (Quote by - Ella Maillart)
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
Freshly blows the wind homewards: my Irish child, where are you dwelling? (Quote by - Richard Wagner)
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. (Quote by - Ben Stiller)
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. (Quote by - Comte De Bussy-Rabutin)
They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind. (Quote by - Arthur Harris)
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. (Quote by - Clifford D. Simak)
Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind! Blow, that thy force I may rehearse, While all my thoughts congeal to verse! (Quote by - John Bancks)
I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. (Quote by - Anthony Quinn)
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. (Quote by - Arthur Golden)
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. (Quote by - Orville Wright)
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. (Quote by - Roy Bean)
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. (Quote by - Chris Evert)
Why not master? upon letting off wind whilst commentating live (Quote by - Ron Atkinson)
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (Quote by - Bible)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq. (Quote by - Douglas Feith)
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. (Quote by - Eric Carle)
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. (Quote by - Christina Rossetti)
My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. (Quote by - John McGraw)
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. (Quote by - Herbert Read)
I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'. (Quote by - Devon Werkheiser)
That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it. (Quote by - Hattie McDaniel)
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why. (Quote by - Barry Zito)
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening (Quote by - George Herbert)
I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out. (Quote by - Joe Cronin)
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed. (Quote by - Michael Behe)
The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
Throw caution to the wind and just do it. (Quote by - Carrie Underwood)
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. (Quote by - Jimmy Dean)
Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs. (Quote by - Greg Walden)
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. (Quote by - Patricia Cornwell)
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. (Quote by - Charles Godfrey Leland)
I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan. (Quote by - Matthew McGrory)
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni. (Quote by - Tony Randall)
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. (Quote by - Brad Pitt)
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. (Quote by - Euripides)
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. (Quote by - Don Henley)
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. (Quote by - Alison Bechdel)
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat. (Quote by - Hedy Lamarr)
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. (Quote by - Jacopo Sannazaro)
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. (Quote by - e. e. cummings)
By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. (Quote by - Tim Johnson)
I can't see myself racing competitively because that would really wind me up, racing old-aged, hair-coming-out-of-their-ears type people who you should be beating but you're not (Quote by - Matthew Pinsent)
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one. (Quote by - Ashley Judd)
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker. If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system. (Quote by - Patricia Harris)
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. (Quote by - Shania Twain)
When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself. (Quote by - Tom Kite)
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up. (Quote by - Lawrence Hargrave)
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA. (Quote by - Marion Jones)
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)
A cold wind blew off Hanging Dog Mountain and I had no fire, nor dared I strike so much as a spark that might betray my hiding place. Somewhere near, an enemy lurked, waiting (Quote by - Louise L'amour)
I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. (Quote by - Glenn Close)
The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes-- Whence is the thrilling magic Of its tunes amongst the leaves? Oh, is it from the waters, Or from the long, tall grass? Or is it from the hollow rocks Through which its breathings pass? (Quote by - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans)
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. (Quote by - Thor Heyerdahl)
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. (Quote by - Carl Hiaasen)
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show. (Quote by - Jon Secada)
Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large. (Quote by - John Byng)
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)
I'm hittin' the road. Maybe I'll drop you a line some day from wherever I wind up in this crazy old world. (Quote by - Homer Simpson)
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I come like Water, and like Wind I go. (Quote by - Edward Fitzgerald)
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. (Quote by - Robert Southwell)
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. (Quote by - Federico Garcia Lorca)
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. (Quote by - Maxwell Bodenheim)
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. (Quote by - Catherine the Great)
I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in. (Quote by - Michelle Wie)
Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion. (Quote by - Michael Ende)
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter. (Quote by - Abraham Cahan)
Wisdom sails with wind and time (Quote by - John Florio)
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. (Quote by - Anne Bronte)
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? (Quote by - Kate Chopin)
They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up. (Quote by - Tracey Emin)
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. (Quote by - Harold McMillan)
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. (Quote by - George Orwell)
One only leaf upon the top of a tree - the sole remaining leaf - danced round and round like a rag blown by the wind. (Quote by - Dorothy Wordsworth)
The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream; He put the o'erhanging grasses by, And softly stooped to kiss the stream, The pretty stream, the flattered stream, The shy, yet unreluctant stream. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. (Quote by - Johannes Brahms)
The four rural counties in the district also received wind and rain damage and experienced power outages affecting thousands of families. (Quote by - Jo Bonner)
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself. (Quote by - Mike Weir)
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. (Quote by - Arthur Ashe)
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. (Quote by - Henry Beston)
When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it. (Quote by - Bai Ling)
The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep. (Quote by - Bear Bryant)
The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity. (Quote by - Ron Fairly)
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils. (Quote by - John Masefield)
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven. (Quote by - Roger Bannister)
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort. (Quote by - Meriwether Lewis)
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. (Quote by - Ani DiFranco)
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. (Quote by - John Wycliffe)
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting. (Quote by - Mark Ruffalo)
President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind? (Quote by - David Letterman)
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. (Quote by - George Crumb)
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play. (Quote by - Jerome Lawrence)
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. (Quote by - Eden Ahbez)
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind [on Ryan Giggs] (Quote by - Sir Alex Ferguson)
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. (Quote by - William James)
I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. (Quote by - John Ehrlichman)
A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg. (Quote by - Les Dawson)
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. (Quote by - Milton Avery)
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. (Quote by - Yoshida Kenko)
In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country. (Quote by - Michael Burgess)
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. (Quote by - Daisy Ashford)
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. (Quote by - A E Housman)
The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
I was leaving the hotel to get to the fight when my phone went and someone said 'Hello Ricky, it's Tom'. I said 'Tom who?' and when he said 'Tom Jones' I told him to eff off! I thought it was a wind-up (Quote by - Ricky Hatton)
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. (Quote by - Robert Fitzgerald)
In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors. (Quote by - John Glover)
I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind. (Quote by - Edwidge Danticat)
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? (Quote by - Jack Handy)
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. (Quote by - Stephanie Mills)
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. (Quote by - James Herriot)
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. (Quote by - Anne Bronte)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. (Quote by - Marjorie Holmes)
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing. (Quote by - Don Van Vliet)
An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she. (Quote by - John Heywood)
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing. (Quote by - Matthew Henson)
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. (Quote by - Jacqueline Cochran)
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. (Quote by - Antony Hewish)
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio. (Quote by - David Lee Roth)
Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny. (Quote by - Roy Wood)
I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today. (Quote by - Bill Richardson)
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise (Quote by - Coventry Patmore)
I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel (Quote by - August Hare)
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No. (Quote by - Harold Wilson)
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. (Quote by - John Philip Sousa)
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love. (Quote by - Barry Cornwall)
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. (Quote by - Hugo Black)
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them? (Quote by - Cate Blanchett)
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
Popular applause veers with the wind. (Quote by - John Bright)
A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. (Quote by - George Herbert)
I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent. (Quote by - Floyd Abrams)
Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. (Quote by - Timothy Dalton)
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? (Quote by - Ralph Marston)
I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous. (Quote by - Kent Conrad)
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't ... My dear, I don't give a damn [Gone with the Wind] (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world. (Quote by - Bill Owens)
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. (Quote by - Janet Frame)
You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the centre fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. (Quote by - Bob Sarlette)
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that. (Quote by - Eartha Kitt)
You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality. (Quote by - Amy Irving)
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. (Quote by - Ashley Smith)
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. (Quote by - Grantland Rice)
But what a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water. (Quote by - Catullus)
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. (Quote by - Mark-Paul Gosselaar)
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. (Quote by - William Henry Ashley)
For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late. (Quote by - Anne Edwards)
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control. (Quote by - Jerome Lawrence)
There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. (Quote by - Frank Yerby)
There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind. (Quote by - Johnny Ball)
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. (Quote by - John Petit-Senn)
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore. (Quote by - Sterling Hayden)
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. (Quote by - Evel Knievel)
As the wind blows the sand from the shore, so must they be driven away. This is the true voice of the people (Quote by - Benjamin Zephania)
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. (Quote by - David Friedman)
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)
One of my favorites is The Sound of Music. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up. (Quote by - Mark Roberts)
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. (Quote by - Homer)
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard. (Quote by - Frances Parkinson Keyes)
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing! (Quote by - Alan Green)
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. (Quote by - John D. MacDonald)
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. (Quote by - Laura Ingalls Wilder)
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it. (Quote by - O. Henry)
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. (Quote by - William Golding)
The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you. (Quote by - John Vance Cheney)
I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out. (Quote by - Larry Miller)
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. (Quote by - Burl Ives)
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. (Quote by - William Falconer)
The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! (Quote by - William Hamilton Gibson)
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off. (Quote by - Sally Rand)
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies. (Quote by - Marcus V. Pollio)
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. (Quote by - Bible)
I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out. (Quote by - Carlton Fisk)
But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now. (Quote by - Billy Bragg)
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. (Quote by - Emmett Kelly)
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him... (Quote by - Sophocles)
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. (Quote by - Hermann von Helmholtz)
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. (Quote by - Charles Eastman)
As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves. (Quote by - Joshua Slocum)
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today. (Quote by - Kelly Lynch)
Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. (Quote by - Ian Gilmour)
Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well. (Quote by - Fred Frith)
It was late in the afternoon in the spring of the year 1630; the hilltops of the south of Scotland were covered with masses of cloud, and a fierce wind swept the driving rain before it with such force that it was not easy to make way against it (Quote by - George Alfred Henty)
Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring? (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
The grass was white with frost on the shadowed sides of the reservation hills and ditches, but the morning air was almost warm, sweetened by a southern wind. Father Damien's best hours were late at night and just after rising, when all he'd had to break his fast was a cup of hot water. He was old, very old, but alert until he had to eat (Quote by - Louise Erdrich)
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth. (Quote by - George Leigh Mallory)
On names for his soon to be born baby: 'My wife thought of Scarlet from 'Gone With The Wind'. I thought of Darth Maul, or maybe President. President Stiller would be a great name.' (Quote by - Ben Stiller)
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. (Quote by - Haruki Murakami)
What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes. (Quote by - John Huston)
Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land (Quote by - Jack London)
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk; Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. (Quote by - Joseph Ratzinger)
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been. (Quote by - Meriwether Lewis)
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
But certain winds will make men's temper bad. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. (Quote by - David Hare)
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. (Quote by - Jim Elliot)
I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast. (Quote by - Evelyn Ashford)
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? (Quote by - J B Priestley)
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
A Boston man is the east wind made flesh. (Quote by - Thomas Gold Appleton)
I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of. (Quote by - Glenn Ford)
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. (Quote by - Dizzy Dean)
After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating. (Quote by - Method Man)
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. (Quote by - James Stephens)
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind. (Quote by - Frank Harris)
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures. (Quote by - Geronimo)
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum. (Quote by - Jack Kemp)
If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay. (Quote by - Charles Dance)
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. (Quote by - Chanakya)
Who am I to blow against the wind? (Quote by - Paul Simon)
My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head! (Quote by - Derek Jacobi)
