Wind Quotes

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

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.

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

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.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.