Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Frame

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Bob Dole

The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.

Bob Dylan

Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

Bob Dylan

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Billy Collins

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

Bodhidharma

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Aristophanes

Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

Bruce Lee

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Brother Lawrence

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

Bridget Fonda

I dont talk about who Im dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

Bob Newhart

One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.

Bill Joy

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

Bill Joy

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Bernie Mac

Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

Edward Hirsch

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...

Ben Stiller

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

Ben Stiller

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Asa Gray

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Desiderius Erasmus

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

Dean Koontz

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

Ben Stein

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

Bayard Taylor

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Avi

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

Avi

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

Antony Hewish

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.