Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everyone was back, but we're still getting our wind back.

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.

It's like having the wind at your back.

Larry Brown

It's not going to be as bad. The wind will be a lot lower.

Janet Fitch

I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.

Janet Fitch

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

Ernest Gaines

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

Cassandra Clare

She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

Jenn Suhr

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.

Glenn Close

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Hart Crane

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

Haile Gebrselassie

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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.

Jay Inslee

I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.

Kim Stanley Robinson

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

Julia Gillard

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

Josh Charles

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.

Joseph Joubert

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Milton Friedman

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Mike Duncan

The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.

H. G. Wells

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ...

George Herbert

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

George Herbert

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

George Herbert

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

George Herbert

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

Jim Cummings

John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

Howard Schultz

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

Howard Schultz

When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

Francis Quarles

Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.