Wind famous quotes

To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.
-- Joshua Slocum

#Clouds #Wind #Law

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!
-- Joss Whedon

#Firefly #Wind #Free Spirit

Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face
-- Judy Blume

#Air #Color #Wind

You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.
-- Julia de Burgos

#Hair #Wind #Curls

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.
-- Julia Gillard

#Wind #Transition #Abundance

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

#Spring #Wind #Machines

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
-- Juliet Marillier

#Heart #Night #Wind

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.
-- Juliet Marillier

#Song #Flames #Wind

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.
-- Julius Lester

#Pain #Wind #Envy

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.
-- June Hunt

#Inspirational #Anchors #Wind

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.
-- Juno Temple

#Thinking #Wind #Important

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.
-- Justin Vernon

#Dust #Wind #Feels

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.
-- Kami Garcia

#Color #Wind #Sky

The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way.
-- Kano Jigoro

#Wind #Practice #Mma

Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.
-- Karen Hesse

#Dust #Wind #California

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.
-- Karen Maitland

#Rain #Blow #Wind

Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.
-- Karen White

#Strong #Memories #Wind

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Wind #Gone #Cold

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Writing #Wind #Southern

A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Life #Blow #Wind

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
-- Karl Hess

#War #Wind #Government

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.
-- Karl Ove Knausgard

#Past #Reality #Wind

Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough.
-- Karl Rove

#Success #Real #Wind

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?
-- Kate Chopin

#Wind #Tree #Earth

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind ...
-- Katharine Whitehorn

#Blow #Wind #Intelligence

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
-- Katherine Anne Porter

#Children #Wind #Spiders

I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
-- Kathryn Hahn

#Vacation #Wind #Trying

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?
-- Katrina Kenison

#Simple #Hands #Wind

You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.
-- Katsuki Sekida

#Eye #Hands #Wind

Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!
-- Keith Urban

#Hands #Wind #Flying

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
-- Kelly Lynch

#Wind #Looks #Gone

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
-- Ken Follett

#Blow #Wind #One Direction

Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources.
-- Ken Salazar

#Country #Wind #Oil

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.
-- Kent Conrad

#Jobs #Wind #Dollars

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!
-- Kerry Washington

#Wind #Different #Machines

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.
-- Kevin Brockmeier

#Rocks #Wind #People

...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.
-- Kevin Brockmeier

#Wind #Fire #Long

One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.
-- Kevin Cramer

#Acceptance #Opportunity #Wind

Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!
-- Kevin Nealon

#Strong #Wind #Nyc

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Night #Wind #Tree

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Song #Wind

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Death #Spiritual #Wind

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Dance #Wind #Heaven

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Spiritual #Wind #Gossip

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson

#Wind #World #Bigs

One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.
-- Klaus Mann

#Wind #Today #Becoming

Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will to extend his life. "Fly...Rider, with great speed. Don't read m-message. Then they can't tor-torture...it from you. If captured, shred it and toss it to the winds." Then, because his voice had grown so faint, she had to lean very close to hear his final words. "Beware the shadow man." A cold tremor ran through Karigan's body. "I'll do my best," she told him.
-- Kristen Britain

#Men #Wind #Voice

It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.
-- Kurt Busiek

#Simple #Years #Wind

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Believe #Wind #Hands

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Atheist #Wind #Religion

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Dust #Hands #Wind

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Hard Work #Wind #Energy

I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Song #Stars #Wind

I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.
-- L.A. Weatherly

#Home #Night #Wind

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.
-- Laini Taylor

#Wall #Flames #Wind

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Inspirational #Teamwork #Wind

When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!
-- Lance Wubbels

#Wind #Wings #May

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.
-- Lancelot Andrewes

#Flower #Wind #Gone

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.
-- Larry Gelbart

#Thinking #Wind #People

For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.
-- Larry L. King

#Blow #Texas #Wind

When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Lonely #Sleep #Wind

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Hard Work #Thinking #Wind

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life
-- Laura Nyro

#Eye #Wind #Sky

I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles.
-- Laurel Burch

#Jewels #Color #Wind

As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
-- Lauren Weisberger

#Fashion #Blood #Wind

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.
-- Laurence Sterne

#Heart #Wind #Giving

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
-- Laurence Sterne

#Wind #Lambs #Temper

Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson

#Girl #Moving #Wind

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Wind #Sea #Bird

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
-- Lawrence Hargrave

#Wind #Sea #Giants

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.
-- Learned Hand

#Prayer #Wind #Heaven

I have never been over-concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. If you are concerned with whether your rating will go up or down, then you are not a leader. You are just catching the wind... you will go where the wind is blowing. And that’s not what I am in this for.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Thinking #Wind #Leader

Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here
-- Lemn Sissay

#Rain #Home #Wind

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Running #Nature #Wind

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person,
-- Leo Fender

#Wind #Machines #Wells

A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.
-- Les Dawson

#Growing Up #Squares #Wind

I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.
-- Les Dawson

#Witty #Doctors #Wind

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.
-- Leslie Bibb

#Girl #Wind #Southern

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.
-- Leslie Newman

#Food #Autumn #Wind

The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something -- oil, coal, or natural gas -- leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.
-- Lester R. Brown

#Wind #Oil #Sun

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating capacity grew from 7,600 megawatts in 1997 to 9,600 in 1998, an expansion of 26 percent. At a national level, Germany led the way, adding 790 megawatts of capacity, followed by Spain with 380 megawatts, and the United States with 226 megawatts. In the past, U.S. wind generating capacity was concentrated in California, but in 1998, wind farms began generating electricity in Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming, broadening the new industry's geographical base.
-- Lester R. Brown

#Past #Cells #Wind

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.
-- Lester R. Brown

#Cells #Wind #Foundation

The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.
-- Leza Lowitz

#Wind #Way #Path

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.
-- Li-Young Lee

#Doors #Wind #Shadow

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.
-- Libba Bray

#Wind #Looks #Painful

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
-- Liberty Hyde Bailey

#Rain #Garden #Wind

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.
-- Lin Yutang

#Letting Go #Men #Wind

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
-- Lionel Trilling

#Swimming #Wind #Conscious

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
-- Livy

#Wind #Sea #Breeze

What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith

#Wind #Forever #Soul

A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.
-- Lois Ehlert

#Blow #Men #Wind

She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.
-- Lois Lowry

#Husband #Wind #Clothes

Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet!
-- Lonnie Dupre

#Weather #Feet #Wind

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
-- Lord Byron

#Lonely #Wind #Water

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!
-- Lord Byron

#Beautiful #Wind #Sea

And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.
-- Lord Dunsany

#Wind #Light #Sight

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.
-- Lorrie Moore

#Flower #Wind #Sea

I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff from north to south, but the wind, against which I was fighting, got even stronger. A break in the coast appeared to my right, just before Dover Castle. I was madly happy. I headed for it. I rushed for it. I was above ground!
-- Louis Bleriot

#Airplane #Fighting #Wind

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
-- Louis C. K.

#Wind #Endurance #Legs

Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.
-- Louis Eric Barrier

#Blow #Reality #Wind