Wind Quotes

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Thus far we run before the wind.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

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.