Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Ellen Baker

You can look out the window and see the whole world.

The wind was pretty strong. I don't know what it was like in Leavenworth, but in Topeka it was pretty harsh.

The wind set it off once. And we sprinted over there. But there was no fish.

The wind is at the back to this industry, no question.

Russell Crowe

Anyway, I'm doing my rave and this spittle comes out of my mouth and it winds its way very delicately through the wire fence that separates us and lands clear and bright on Denzel's lip. And we're at the beginning of the scene and I've got to do the rest of the scene, and the camera isn't on him, it's on me - and I'm fully aware that I've just spat on Denzel Washington!

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Riordan

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

Ovid

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

P. C. Cast

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Paullina Simons

Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

Paul Valery

The wind is rising...we must attempt to live.

Mel Brooks

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

Pierre Beaumarchais

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

Pete Townshend

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Paulo Coelho

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

Plutarch

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

Plutarch

Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?

Mickey Rivers

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Victor Hugo

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

Victor Hugo

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

Richard E. Byrd

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Thomas More

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Thomas Browne

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

Tim Yeo

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

Thomas Starr King

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

Sarah Jessica Parker

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Sarah Vowell

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

Samuel Rutherford

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Samuel Rutherford

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

Samuel Johnson

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.