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)