Wind Quotes - page 3

A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine. (Anne Brontë)
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
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. View quote
Ben Stiller
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of woman. View quote
Jacopo Sannazaro
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Indoors or out, no one relaxes; In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year. View quote
Ogden Nash
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day. View quote
Walter Scott
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. (Winston Churchill)
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that. View quote
Eartha Kitt
Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. View quote
Evel Knievel
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. View quote
Michel Onfray
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. (Augustus Hare)
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. View quote
George Crumb
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. View quote
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
The wind is blowing, adore the wind. View quote
Pythagoras