Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaun White

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Scott Westerfeld

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Steven Morrissey

Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.

Susan Howatch

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

Ricky Skaggs

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

Richard Simmons

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

T. S. Eliot

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

T. S. Eliot

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

Susan Sontag

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

Kelly Lynch

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

Ramakrishna

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

Ramakrishna

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Ramana Maharshi

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

Sean Parker

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

Saul Griffith

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

Laurie Halse Anderson

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

Terry Tempest Williams

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

Terry Pratchett

Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

Terry Fox

It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Tom Petty

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

Simone Elkeles

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.

Simon Jenkins

The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.

Rick Riordan

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.

Richard Brautigan

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

Roger Rosenblatt

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

Thomas Merton

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

Robert E. Howard

He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.

Robert Fitzgerald

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.