Wind Quotes

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

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

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.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

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.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

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.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.