Wind Quotes

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet knows nothing of rain or wind. I speak for her; I am her own.

My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

We are gonna have tons and tons of opportunities to meet gorgeous ladies that get so aroused by the thought of marriage that they'll throw their inhibitions to the wind.

History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

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.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

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.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

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

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.