Quotes about wind
wind sailing use
I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again this way, till finally I get to you. With rowing, you're working primarily with your arms and shoulders. But with sailing, you're making bigger use of the wind and the waves. Jeff Bridges
wind water different
Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
wind littles toys
My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I'm a little lost. George Saunders
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 car tape
I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car. Elton John
wind great-friend
Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
wind sky perspective
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind is bearing me across the sky. Ellen Gilchrist
wind fire rocks
Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds. Francis Quarles
wind fire soul
My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.
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 sea skills
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft. Homer
wind white clouds
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
wind sky wings
Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky. Giordano Bruno
wind cities tree
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ... H. G. Wells
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
windows
Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,
wind government trying
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. Abbie Hoffman
wind doe arguing
One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. A. A. Milne
wind ideas
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would. Danger Mouse
wind sky lakes
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds Orson Scott Card