Wind famous quotes

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.
-- Joë Bousquet

#Wind #Echoes #Body

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.
-- Joë Bousquet

#Stars #Wind #Silence

People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail.
-- Joe Charboneau

#Anchors #Wind #People

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
-- Joe Cronin

#Wind #Waiting #Used

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.
-- Joe Garagiola

#Running #Blow #Wind

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.
-- Joe Hockey

#Thinking #Lakes #Wind

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.
-- Joe Louis

#Wind #Sticks #Tough

It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality.
-- Joe Schaefer

#Reality #Wind #Tunes

Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.
-- Joel Fuhrman

#Wind #Suffering #Trying

The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.
-- Joel Garreau

#Cancer #Wind #Waiting

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Wind

Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.
-- Johannes Kepler

#Memories #Wind #Astrology

It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea.
-- John Ajvide Lindqvist

#Air #Wind #Sea

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.
-- John Armstrong

#Air #Wind #Desert

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?
-- John B. Tabb

#Winter #Wind #Snow

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
-- John Burroughs

#Wind #Storm #Demon

I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.
-- John Burroughs

#Nature #Rain #Wind

When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing--kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition.
-- John By

#Adversity #Wind #Kites

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
-- John Carmack

#Wind #Ideas #Hands

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.
-- John Climacus

#Christian #Anger #Wind

The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our view is that plant operating under these conditions in the support role for wind will suffer: 1) reduced availability, 2) significantly reduced efficiency, and thus 3) higher emissions per MWh generated..
-- John Constable

#Impact #Views #Wind

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.
-- John D. MacDonald

#Integrity #Blow #Wind

It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way
-- John Denver

#Grateful #Blow #Wind

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are...
-- John Denver

#Stars #Future #Wind

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
-- John Denver

#Philosophy #Ocean #Wind

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.
-- John Denver

#Mother #Father #Wind

The winds are out of breath.
-- John Dryden

#Wind

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
-- John Dryden

#Moving #Wind #Sea

A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
-- John Dryden

#Men #Wind #Water

The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.
-- John Dryden

#Blow #Wind #Joy

Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.
-- John Ehrlichman

#Sarcastic #Thinking #Wind

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic."
-- John Eliot

#Success #Wind #People

We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.
-- John F. Kerry

#Strong #Technology #Wind

Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.
-- John Facenda

#Winter #Wind #December

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
-- John Flavel

#Prayer #Wind #Comfort

Wisdom sails with wind and time.
-- John Florio

#Wind #Sailing #Sail

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.
-- John Fowles

#Strong #Morning #Wind

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
-- John Fowles

#Wind #Cobwebs #Hours

The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

#Music #Summer #Wind

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.
-- John Huston

#Inspiration #Wind #Ideas

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.
-- John Kasich

#Wind #Obamacare #Faces

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
-- John Keats

#Flower #Hair #Wind

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
-- John Keats

#Grateful #Kissing #Wind

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
-- John Knowles

#Wind #Faces #Sun

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe
-- John Lennon

#Eye #Light #Wind

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
-- John Lyly

#Fire #Wind #Giving

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.
-- John Masefield

#Eye #Wind #Land

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
-- John Masefield

#Wind #Bird #West

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.
-- John Maynard Smith

#Wind #Boeing #Steps

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
-- John McGraw

#Wind #Storm #Breeze

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
-- John Millington Synge

#Islands #Wind #Enough

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
-- John Millington Synge

#Pain #War #Wind

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.
-- John Milton

#Sweet #Selfish #Wind

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
-- John Milton

#Sheep #Doors #Wind

I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.
-- John Milton

#Art #Hate #Wind

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
-- John Milton

#Music #Wind #Breathe

If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.
-- John Milton

#Prayer #Wind #Bidding

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.
-- John Milton

#Thinking #Wind #Deeds

Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
-- John Milton

#Sports #Wind #Rags

But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?
-- John Milton

#Sex #Gay #Wind

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.
-- John Milton

#Strength #Truth #Wind

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
-- John Muir

#Wind #Scent #May

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.
-- John Muir

#Nature #Wind #Water

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
-- John Muir

#Wind #Long #Bird

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
-- John Muir

#Eye #Wind #Mind

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
-- John Muir

#Nature #Wind #Rivers

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.
-- John Muir

#Stars #Animal #Wind

Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
-- John Owen

#Believe #Blow #Wind

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
-- John Philip Sousa

#Wind #Balance #Orchestra

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.
-- John Ray

#Wise #Men #Wind

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
-- John Ruskin

#Wind #Wings #White

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
-- John Selden

#Air #Wind #May

Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
-- John Steinbeck

#Moving #Wind #Stones

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.
-- John Steinbeck

#Change #Men #Wind

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
-- John Sterling

#Wind #Mistress #Made

The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.
-- John Todd

#Technology #Wind #Creating

The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.
-- John Vance Cheney

#Wind #Forgotten #Deceiving

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age
-- John Walter Bratton

#Birthday #Wind #Age

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
-- John Welwood

#Wind #Singing #Enlightenment

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
-- John Wycliffe

#Life #Stay Strong #Wind

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.
-- Johnny Ball

#Jobs #Wind #Owners

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!
-- Johnny Bench

#Fighting #Wind #Games

From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.
-- Johnny Mercer

#Night #Wind #Two

Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.
-- Jon Krakauer

#Oxygen #Ice #Wind

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
-- Jon Secada

#Fire #Wind #Records

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.
-- Jonathan Haidt

#Happiness #Hard Work #Wind

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Wind #Understanding

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Fate #Wind #Should

Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.
-- Joseph Campbell

#Thinking #Cells #Wind

Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.
-- Joseph Hall

#Mother #Wind #Mind

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.
-- Joseph Hall

#Wind #May #Pairs

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
-- Joseph Heller

#Country #Light #Wind

Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.
-- Joseph J. Romm

#Mph #Wind #Climate

Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.
-- Joseph J. Romm

#Wind #Climate #Example

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Sex #Women #Wind

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
-- Joseph Stalin

#Wind #Rubbish #Mercy

When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.
-- Josephus

#Men #Wind #Cities

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.
-- Josh Charles

#Wind #People #Community

I am not an alcoholic. I'm a social catalyst. People pay me to illustrate for other partygoers the chemical process involved in transforming from one persona into another drunker, more fun one. It's a matter of going from dull point A to exciting point B. And I'm a raving success at it. So successful that sometimes I wind up at Mysterious Point C.
-- Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#Fun #Successful #Wind

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves
-- Joshua Slocum

#Jumping #Wind #Sea