Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherynne M. Valente

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

Carl Hiaasen

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Callie Khouri

We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Donald Sadoway

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

Don Henley

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

In this event, the big (question) will be: What's wind and what's water?

Jack Dempsey

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

J. D. Salinger

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

J. D. Salinger

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

Iqbal Quadir

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Jack Kerouac

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

Isaac Newton

The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus .

Isabel Allende

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Graeme Simsion

I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

Glenn Hoddle

United will break caution to the wind

Harry Chapin

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit...

Damian Marley

Did you know that IExist before the earthAnd did you know my eyesAre windows to the world.

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Ellen Baker

You can look out the window and see the whole world.

The wind was pretty strong. I don't know what it was like in Leavenworth, but in Topeka it was pretty harsh.

The wind set it off once. And we sprinted over there. But there was no fish.

The wind is at the back to this industry, no question.

Kim Stanley Robinson

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

Julia Gillard

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Josh Charles

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

Jim Cummings

John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

Jenn Suhr

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

Glenn Close

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

It was probably the worst the wind has been. You couldn't really read it.

It's like having the wind at your back.

Larry Brown

It's not going to be as bad. The wind will be a lot lower.

Everyone was back, but we're still getting our wind back.