Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Erhard

In life you wind up with one of two things - the results or the reason why you don’t have the results. Results don’t have to be explained. They just are.

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

Salman Rushdie

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

W. S. Gilbert

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

Van Morrison

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

Tyson Chandler

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

Tyra Banks

I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard.

William Gurnall

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

William Goldman

Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

Stephen Chbosky

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

Stefan Sagmeister

It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

Sonia Sotomayor

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Tim Cahill

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

Vin Diesel

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.

Saint-John Perse

....followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....

Ronald Reagan

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

Sally Rand

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Stewart Udall

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Stewart Udall

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Steve Jobs

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

Steve Coogan

If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

Pearl S. Buck

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

Peace Pilgrim

There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.

Peter S. Beagle

This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind’s right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka’s mystery even to the Pooka.

Peter Russell

One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.

Rachel Field

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Pythagoras

The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

Selena Gomez

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.