Wind Quotes

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.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.

I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

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

Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

Who am I to blow against the wind?

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.