Quotes about wind
wind meteors streaming
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. John Milton
wind water wonder
The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
wind flags fool
I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us. Mike Watkins
wind storm breeze
One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. John McGraw
wind islands enough
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. John Millington Synge
wind suffering trying
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 creating tribes
Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes. George A. Romero
wind circles verbs
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends. Garrison Keillor
wind house curiosity
Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain. Gabrielle Roy
wind sail
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail. Francois Fenelon
wind water bird
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
wind storm demon
We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry. John Burroughs
wind way heat
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 forever soul
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 childhood glimpse
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile. Lucy Maud Montgomery
wind sea rocks
Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. John Gay
wind sailing sail
Wisdom sails with wind and time. John Florio
wind cobwebs hours
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. John Fowles
wind olympics bigs
You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over. Lindsey Vonn
wind machines wells
No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person, Leo Fender
wind sea giants
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
windy plenty
Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at. Larry McMurtry
wind-blowing boeing steps
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 bird west
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. John Masefield
wind fire giving
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. John Lyly
wind treasure sailor
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. John Lubbock
wind choices littles
There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation. John le Carre
window dickens felt
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast. John Baldessari
wind teeth
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth. George Leigh Mallory
wind skeletons stronger
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. Ellen Hopkins
wind may pairs
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 weather tyrants
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. Joseph Conrad
wind snow looks
I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here! Langston Hughes