Wind Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

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.