Wind famous quotes

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.
-- Cameron Dokey

#Moving #Wind #Snakes

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
-- Carl Hiaasen

#Wind #Tree #Bending

Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it.
-- Carl Sagan

#Children #Wind #America

What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.
-- Carl Sagan

#Caring #Thinking #Wind

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Life #Wisdom #Wind

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow . . .
-- Carl Sandburg

#War #Wind #Feet

If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.
-- Carlo Borromeo

#Faith #Inspiration #Wind

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Wind #Shadow #Stories

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.
-- Carlos Santana

#Children #Ocean #Wind

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.
-- Carlos Santana

#Artist #Rocks #Wind

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
-- Carlton Fisk

#Sports #Wind #Feet

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.
-- Carol Plum-Ucci

#Swings #Wind #Mind

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
-- Caroline Kennedy

#Mean #Independent #Wind

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
-- Carrie Underwood

#Wind #Caution #Just Do It

I wanna be inside your heaven Take me to the place you cry from Where the storm blows your way I wanna be the earth that holds you Every bit of air you're breathin' in A soothin' wind I wanna be inside your heaven
-- Carrie Underwood

#Blow #Air #Wind

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows
-- Cat Stevens

#Thinking #Wind #Soul

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
-- Cate Blanchett

#Eye #Cells #Wind

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
-- Cathleen Falsani

#Color #Wind #Grace

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Blow #Wind #People

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.
-- Celia Thaxter

#Summer #Healing #Wind

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.
-- Chad Kroeger

#Writing #Wind #Sometimes

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
-- Chanakya

#Education #Flower #Wind

To turn to the Lord and to trust him through revelation will help any individual, at any time, in any part of the world, understand and interpret correctly and righteously life's experiences from the only true perspective, which is the Lord's perspective revealed to man. To turn to the Lord and to trust his revelations is live in such a way as to resist the floods and the winds of doubt and uncertainty.
-- Charles A. Didier

#Men #Wind #Perspective

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman

#Spiritual #Character #Wind

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Wind #Insanity #Mind

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Believe #Wind #People

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Wind #Literature #Wave

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.
-- Charles Churchill

#Blow #Wind #Wave

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
-- Charles Dance

#Talking #Wind #Use

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
-- Charles Dickens

#Rain #Fall #Wind

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.
-- Charles Dickens

#Tombstone #Wind #Iron

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
-- Charles Dickens

#Skeletons #Wind #Branches

The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.
-- Charles Dickens

#Dark #Night #Wind

The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.
-- Charles Frazier

#Teenage #Wind #Two

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
-- Charles Kuralt

#Wind #Sorrow #Melancholy

Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Christian #Prayer #Wind

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.
-- Charles Reznikoff

#Sunshine #Wind #Cures

I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Grief #Wind #Soul

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Wind #Useless #Ships

There are certain episodes that on the page I thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be the funniest episode." And there are other ones that went in, fingers crossed, saying, "Oh well, let's hope something good comes out of it." Oftentimes, those ones wind up being the best ones.
-- Charlie Day

#Boys #Wind #Pages

I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I'm lost inside, my soul -- all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be -- shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy.
-- Chris Claremont

#Eye #Heart #Wind

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.
-- Chris Daughtry

#Song #Night #Wind

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
-- Chris Evert

#Wind #Play #Tennis

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
-- Chris Gardner

#Wind #Differences #Shining

To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.
-- Chris Hadfield

#Education #Simple #Wind

This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.
-- Chris Hedges

#War #Wind #Enemy

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
-- Chris Kirkpatrick

#Latin #Wind #Reason

True worship, worship in spirit and truth, has never been and will never be a trend. This style of music may be a trend, but that's because God's blowing a fresh Wind of His Spirit in so many people who are coming to realize that anything that just builds us up as people isn't worth much. What gives God the spotlight is important. And that's all we're about.
-- Chris Tomlin

#Wind #People #Giving

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
-- Christina Rossetti

#Clouds #Air #Wind

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.
-- Christina Rossetti

#Wind #Doe #Way

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
-- Christina Rossetti

#Death #Sweet #Wind

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
-- Christopher Columbus

#Clouds #Air #Wind

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility...
-- Christopher Cross

#Wind #Paradise #Tranquility

The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.
-- Christopher Flavin

#Two #Years #Wind

Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.
-- Christopher Paolini

#Night #Wind #World

The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.
-- Cindy Sheehan

#Blow #Wind #Chinese

If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.
-- Cintra Wilson

#Princess #Wind #Epilepsy

When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.
-- Clarissa Ward

#Wind #Sea #Heaven

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.
-- Clark Gable

#Stars #Eight #Wind

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.
-- Claud Cockburn

#Philosophical #Wind #Essence

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...
-- Claude Debussy

#Wind #Tree #Advice

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
-- Clifford D. Simak

#Dog #Fire #Wind

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.
-- Clinton Scollard

#Inspirational #Wind #Bird

O the wind is a faun in the spring time When the ways are green for the tread of the May! List! hark his lay! Whist! mark his play! T-r-r-r-l! Hear how gay!
-- Clinton Scollard

#Spring #Gay #Wind

When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
-- Clive Owen

#Wind #Driving #Idiot

Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way.
-- CM Punk

#Talking #Wind #Stuff

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Air #Wind

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
-- Colin Hanks

#Men #Wind #Guy

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
-- Colum McCann

#Wind #Rivers #Tangled

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
-- Colum McCann

#Mother #Brother #Wind

When the wind blows,the grass bends.
-- Confucius

#Blow #Wind #Grass

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
-- Confucius

#Wind #Storm #Stronger

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Men #Flames #Wind

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Heart #Air #Wind

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Horse #Men #Wind

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Mother #Wind #Earth

The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Mean #Men #Wind

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Life #Wind #Mood

If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.
-- Croft M. Pentz

#Mistake #Wind #People

My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Life #Wind #Everyday

Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.
-- Cynthia Voigt

#Life #Blow #Wind

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Time #Blow #Wind

The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.
-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Wind #Sea #Dancing

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

#Wind #Ideas #Little Things

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Wind #Live For Today #Gusto

When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into a spirit of spring.
-- Dallas Lore Sharp

#Spring #Science #Wind

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
-- Dan Dierdorf

#Fun #Real #Wind

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.
-- Dan Millman

#Wind #Sky #Clouds

Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of competition.
-- Dan Smoot

#Powerful #Government #Wind

Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?
-- Dana Burnet

#Dream #Butterfly #Wind

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 #Ideas

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
-- Daniel Goleman

#Heart #Wind #Two

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
-- Daniel H. Wilson

#Technology #Thinking #Wind

....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Beach #Wind #Way

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.
-- Daniel Tammet

#Wind #Giving #Feelings

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Eye #Wind #Skins

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.
-- Daniele Vare

#Wind #Water #House

I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#Sweet #Climbing #Wind

…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Country #Wind #Heaven

here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Determination #Wind #Two