Wind Quotes

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.

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.

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!

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.