Wind famous quotes

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina

#Wind #People #Minorities

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.
-- Antony Hewish

#Clouds #Wind #Height

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Wind #Dawn #Grass

Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.
-- Aristophanes

#Wind #Way #Gallant

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
-- Aristotle Onassis

#Hope #Wind #Sea

You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.
-- Arlene Blum

#Blow #Wind #Mountain

The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.
-- Arpad Elo

#Player #Wind #Water

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
-- Arthur Ashe

#Dark #Wind #Sailing

Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.
-- Arthur Bryant

#Adversity #Sunshine #Wind

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Ocean #Blood #Wind

You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Wind #Agents #May

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.
-- Arthur Dove

#Wind #Water #Sound

My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Gay #Wind #Sky

As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.
-- Arthur Miller

#Writing #Wind #Play

Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
-- Arthur Miller

#Blow #Wind #Heaven

I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.
-- Arthur P. Warner

#Airplane #Wind #Flying

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Son #Wind #Breathe

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.
-- Arthur Symons

#Sleep #Wind #Sea

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.
-- Asa Gray

#Wind #Shapes #Sides

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.
-- Ashley Judd

#Basketball #Wind #Kentucky

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
-- Avi

#Wind #Mind #Safe

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
-- Avi

#Wind #Mind #May

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.
-- Avril Lavigne

#Philosophy #Wind #Sky

My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!
-- Axel Munthe

#Home #Light #Wind

I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
-- Bai Ling

#Blow #Wind #Goal

Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again.
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Wind #People #Snow

America is number one in wind power.
-- Barack Obama

#Wind #Numbers #America

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
-- Barack Obama

#Wind #Political #Ugly

Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.
-- Barack Obama

#Commitment #Technology #Wind

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Fun #Wind #Having Fun

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
-- Barry Zito

#Thinking #Wind #Games

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
-- Basil Bunting

#Silly #Wind #Sand

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
-- Bayard Taylor

#Pain #Wind #Sea

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
-- Bayard Taylor

#Wind #Fire #Desire

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
-- Beck

#Wind #Desert #World

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
-- Ben Jonson

#Blow #Wind #Slumber

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.
-- Ben Jonson

#Time #Sleep #Wind

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.
-- Ben Jonson

#Horse #Rivers #Wind

Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.
-- Ben Marcus

#Book #Wind #Weather

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
-- Ben Stein

#Wind #America #Gone

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
-- Ben Stiller

#Wind #Energy #Want

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
-- Ben Stiller

#Wind #Shining #Needs

...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
-- Bernadette Roberts

#Wind #Self #Movement

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea
-- Bernard Moitessier

#Wind #Sea #Sky

Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Wind #Soul #Grace

Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Book #Wind #Tree

Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
-- Bernie Mac

#Wind #Car #Want

For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.
-- Beryl Markham

#Wind #Law #Understanding

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Wind #Beats #Tense

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
-- Bill Griffith

#Wind

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
-- Bill McKibben

#Oil #Wind #Fossils

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.
-- Bill Mollison

#Good Life #Lying #Wind

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.
-- Bill Richardson

#Thinking #Wind #People

Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Blow #Wind #Enemy

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Wind #Sail

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.
-- Billy Collins

#Wind #Arms #Faces

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
-- Bjork

#Wind #Way #Century

Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
-- Black Elk

#Eye #Wind #Giving

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours...
-- Black Elk

#Stars #Native American #Wind

A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.
-- Blaise Cendrars

#Dream #Clouds #Wind

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
-- Bob Dylan

#Hippie #Blow #Wind

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
-- Bob Dylan

#Friendship #Moving #Wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.
-- Bob Dylan

#Wind #Answers

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die
-- Bob Dylan

#War #Wind #People

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.
-- Bob Dylan

#Strong #Motivation #Wind

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
-- Bob Dylan

#Men #Wind #Answers

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.
-- Bob Dylan

#Men #Wind #Adages

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
-- Bob Dylan

#Men #Wind #Sky

Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful
-- Bob Kaufman

#Beautiful #Hair #Wind

The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.
-- Bob Marley

#Taken #Wind #Forever

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.
-- Bob Seger

#Wind #Way

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
-- Bob Seger

#Wind #Sun #Gone

I'm older now but still running against the wind
-- Bob Seger

#Running #Wind #Stills

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

#Wind #Joy #Path

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
-- Bonnie Prudden

#Wind #Aging #Clock

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.
-- Brad Paisley

#Mom #Jobs #Wind

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
-- Brad Pitt

#Mean #Ice Cream #Wind

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.
-- Breaux Greer

#Air #Wind #Looks

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.
-- Brennan Manning

#Jesus #Biblical #Wind

A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.
-- Brent Musburger

#Stars #Lakes #Wind

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same
-- Brian Andreas

#Laughter #Wind #Wings

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
-- Brian Andreas

#Fun #Wind #Illusion

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!
-- Brian Jacques

#Night #Wind #Long

I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the ***** their girlfriend fancies.
-- Brian Molko

#Girlfriend #Wind #People

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
-- Brian P. Cleary

#Book #Wind #Gone

I dont talk about who Im dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
-- Bridget Fonda

#Media #Wind #Dating

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
-- Bridget Moynahan

#Heartbroken #Wind #Down And

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.
-- Brother Lawrence

#Wind #Sea #Soul

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 #Rivers #White

Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Cutting #Fire #Wind

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
-- Bruce Lee

#Wind #Alive #Force

Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.
-- Bruno Maag

#Wind #Looks #Want

That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.
-- Bryan Swanson

#Wind #Tree #Storm

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Wind #Wings #Literature

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
-- Burl Ives

#Spring #Wind #Long

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
-- Byron Katie

#Wind #Safety #Priorities

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Book #Wind #Long

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Running #Wind #Long

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Girl #Song #Wind

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Lying #Wind #Trying