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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)

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