Wind famous quotes

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
-- Iqbal Quadir

#Wind #Energy #Would Be

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
-- Iris Chang

#Wind #Disappear #Spoken Word

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Wind #People #World

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.
-- Ismail Kadaré

#Rain #Winter #Wind

Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#White #Wind #Sea

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees
-- J. Willard Marriott

#Education #Courage #Wind

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.
-- Jack Dempsey

#Wind #Boxing #Trying

And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.
-- Jack Finney

#Rain #Wind #Feet

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.
-- Jack Gilbert

#Moon #Wind #Whispering

We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.
-- Jack Gilbert

#Moon #Wind #Whispering

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The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
-- Jack Horner

#Country #Wind #Water

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
-- Jack Kemp

#Winning #Wind #Shaving

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
-- Jack Kerouac

#Wind #Sea #Matter

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
-- Jack White

#Moving #Wind #Magic

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.
-- Jackie Gleason

#Grief #Golf #Wind

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.
-- Jackson Browne

#Reality #Wind #Dancing

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.]
-- Jacopo Sannazaro

#Women #Heart #Wind

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
-- Jacqueline Cochran

#Stars #Wind #Might

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Wind #Library #Milk

Here in the deep powder snow you don't hear yourself ski. You don't hear your long turns or your short turns. You just float. The faster you go, the better. The less you struggle, the better. You move through the deep light snow, through the deep snow with some crust on it, through the deep snow with some wind in it.
-- Jacques Labrie

#Moving #Struggle #Wind

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
-- Jacques Lacan

#Writing #Wind #Flying

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
-- Jakob Dylan

#Thinking #Wind #People

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
-- Jamais Cascio

#Urbanization #Wind #Civilization

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.
-- Jamais Cascio

#Tunnels #Wind #Strategy

Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will give us what we need to keep our course.' A little prayer?' said Jack. 'To a constellation?' To what it represents,' said Aven. But I don't believe in what it represents,' said Jack. Prayers aren't for the deity,' said Aven. 'They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.' Can't you do that without praying to a dead Greek god?' Sure,' said Aven. 'But how often would anyone do that, if not in prayer?
-- James A. Owen

#Prayer #Believe #Wind

When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.
-- James Cameron

#Wind #Feelings #Acting

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.
-- James Franco

#Wind #Reminders

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.
-- James H. Douglas

#Believe #Wind #Lines

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
-- James Herriot

#Morning #Spring #Wind

How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their lives, resist the summons to show up, or live fugitive lives, jealous, projecting onto others, and then wonder why nothing ever really feels quite right. How many proffer compliance with the other, buying peace at the price of soul, and wind up with neither?
-- James Hollis

#Jealous #Insecure #Wind

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.
-- James Howard Kunstler

#Running #Wind #Tourists

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
-- James Joyce

#Wind #Rose #Desire

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
-- James Joyce

#Wind #Giving #Lease

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.
-- James Kavanaugh

#Past #Wind #Steps

I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.
-- James Lovelock

#Wind #Turbines

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.
-- James M. Barrie

#Wind #Away We Go #Teach

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
-- James M. Barrie

#Men #Race #Wind

A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.
-- James Martineau

#Strong #Light #Wind

Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.” And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? I’m alive too.” Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.
-- James Patterson

#Ice #Wind #Hair

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Spring #Real #Wind

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Rain #Fall #Wind

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
-- James Taylor

#Wind #Sick #Alcohol

I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.
-- James Toney

#Motivation #Cutting #Wind

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.
-- James Vila Blake

#Wind #Black #Storm

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.
-- James Wright

#Dark #Wind #Fire

... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.
-- Jandy Nelson

#School #Wind #Perfect

I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.
-- Jandy Nelson

#Writing #Who I Am #Wind

When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.
-- Jandy Nelson

#Lonely #Grief #Wind

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
-- Janet Frame

#Wind #Wire #Electricity

I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.
-- Janette Rallison

#Blow #Wind #Broken

The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.
-- Janine Benyus

#Nature #Law #Wind

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Girl #Dog #Wind

You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.
-- Jay Leno

#Home #Blow #Wind

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.
-- Jay Leno

#Jobs #Wind #White

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.
-- Jayne Anne Phillips

#Wind #Silence #Vibrations

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon
-- Jean Alesi

#Wind #Bridges #Giving

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Courage #Wind #Kites

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.
-- Jean Craighead George

#Wind #Medicine #Air

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
-- Jean Genet

#Ghetto #Wind #People

I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.
-- Jean Kwok

#Wind #Decision #Force

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
-- Jean Racine

#Sleep #Army #Wind

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
-- Jean Rhys

#Wind #People #Unhappy

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Wind #Sea #Vessel

I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme

#Wind #Today #Share

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen

#Wind #Surface #Sooner Or Later

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Children #Blow #Wind

Before we met, I'd fly for hours to clear my head," Bones said, his voice reaching me even over the rush of wind. "It was the closest I came to finding peace, but though several of my mates could fly, I always went alone. I never wanted to share this with anyone until you.
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Voice #Wind #Bones

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Wind #Water #Different

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane
-- Jeffrey McDaniel

#Wind #Hurricanes

Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.
-- Jeffrey R. Holland

#Anchors #Wind #Sight

Mike, we are a green energy company, but the green stands for money.
-- Jeffrey Skilling

#Wind #Energy #Green

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.
-- Jenn Suhr

#Wind #Looks #Able

I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.
-- Jenny Downham

#Climbing #Wind #Bird

The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years.
-- Jeremy Grantham

#Thinking #Years #Wind

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

#Adversity #Men #Wind

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
-- Jerome Lawrence

#Wind #Play #Intellectual

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
-- Jerome Lawrence

#War #Writing #Wind

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.
-- Jerry Saltz

#Art #Order #Wind

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.
-- Jesmyn Ward

#Children #Fire #Wind

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.
-- Jessica Sorensen

#Wind #Forever #Want

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.
-- Jhene Aiko

#Thinking #Wind #Inner Peace

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
-- Jim Costa

#Government #Wind #Political

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.
-- Jim Croce

#Song #Wind #Capes

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
-- Jim Elliot

#Wind #Sound #Thunder

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
-- Jim Goad

#Wind #One Day #Identity

These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.
-- Jim Michaels

#Wind #Feet #Logging

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.
-- Jim Rohn

#Children #Wind #Dollars

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.
-- Jim Rohn

#Running #Animal #Wind

If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
-- Jim Rohn

#Dream #Blow #Wind

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
-- Jim Wallis

#Wind #Political #Outcomes

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Children #Wind #Play

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
-- Jimmy Carter

#Wind #Profound #Spirit

Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Mean #Wind #Sea

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
-- Joan Didion

#Wind #Shows

The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.
-- Joan Halifax

#Self #Wind #Roots

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
-- Joan Miro

#Art #Wind #Making Love

The wind always brings us back to the same wall
-- Joanne Harris

#Wall #Wind

Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.
-- Joaquin Miller

#Ocean #Wind #Sea

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.
-- Joe Barton

#Wind #Way #Heat