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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)

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