Wind Quotes

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

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.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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.

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

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!

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

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.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.