Wind Quotes - page 10

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example... (Aldous Huxley)

There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Joseph Stalin

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

John D. Carmack

Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis, and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.

John Maynard Keynes

Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face.

Jack Nicklaus

An ill wind that blows no man to good.

John Heywood

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

Mark Z. Jacobson

There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone. (Mark Z. Jacobson)

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

Mark Nepo

In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.

Patrick Carman

Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

P. J. O'Rourke

One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.

Peter Russell

Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.

Paul Stanley

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.

Rick Riordan

I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the wind." "On." I wished these gods had names that wearn't common household objects. "Go on, please.

Rick Riordan

He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

Rick Riordan

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air, Gone with the wind.

Rick Riordan

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either. (Rob Thurman)

to wound the autumnal city. So howled out for the world to give him a name. The in-dark answered with wind.

Samuel R. Delany

Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

Scott Cunningham

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Scott Westerfeld

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

Stephen Chbosky

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