Wind Quotes

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.

I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

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.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

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.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

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'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.