Quotes about wind
window old-time swear
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. Buster Keaton
wind white goes-on
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore. Diane Ackerman
wind sail cant-change
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. Billie Joe Armstrong
wind play tennis
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. Chris Evert
wind political ugly
I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. Barack Obama
wind rivers white
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones. Bruce Chatwin
wind feet nuclear
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. David J. C. MacKay
wind play doctors
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation. Dolly Parton
wind cities safety
Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. Thats more detrimental. Dick Powell
wind mind damn
Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind. Derek Walcott
wind long process
There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change. Chuck Close
wind storm stronger
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm. Confucius
wind police revolution
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly. Albert Camus
wind doe earth
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail. Ami Ayalon
wind ill turns
Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.
wind people noses
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. Stephen King
wind sea boots
They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality. Rosamunde Pilcher
wind needs violence
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills. George Horace Lorimer
window sophisticated phony
It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window. J. D. Salinger
wind-blowing smell doors
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. Iris Murdoch
wind somewhere-else lost
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien
wind names leader
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.
wind soul affliction
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening George Herbert
wind abuse trying
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching." Friedrich Nietzsche
wind soul said
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. Trudi Canavan
wind tasks laborers
The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task. William Wordsworth
wind gossip want
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. Rebecca Pidgeon
wind soul atheism
As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls. Robert Plant
wind illusion irrational
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her. Wallace Stevens
window knows universe
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. Samuel Beckett
wind half dozen
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. W. S. Gilbert
wind light shadow
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. Ursula K. Le Guin
wind age envious
At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind. Rodney Dangerfield