Quotes about wind
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
wind obamacare faces
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 coffins good-intentions
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. Gayle Forman
wind united-states conviction
If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better). Lyn Nofziger
wind cities water
The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well. Lyndon B. Johnson
wind organization people
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. Lowell Bergman
wind influence should
Only we should not be influenced by the winds. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
wind gone sound
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it. Freida Pinto
wind law clouds
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
wind hair hands
Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach of the wind. He avoids my gaze. Then he links his arm back around me and pushes his calf into Corr's side. Maggie Stiefvater
wind littles cry
let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers. Haruki Murakami
wind bird important
The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,
wind knowing mind
You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.
wind rocks mind
For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.
wind play interesting
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting. Hans Zimmer