Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Wallace Stevens

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

W. S. Gilbert

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

Rodney Dangerfield

At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.

Winston Churchill

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Terrence Howard

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can

Hjalmar Schacht

Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.

Helen Mirren

I woke up one day and realized I could never be an American.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.

Catherine the Great

I cannot live one day without love.

Edgar Degas

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

James Wan

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Oswald Chambers

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Nikki Giovanni

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Oprah Winfrey

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Marc Webb

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Terry Brooks

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

Leighton Meester

I want an identity outside of my work.