Wind Quotes - page 30

I had thought, seeing how bitter is that wind That shakes the shutter, to have brought to mind All those that manhood tried, or childhood loved Or boyish intellect approved, With some appropriate commentary on each; Until imagination brought A fitter welcome; but a thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. (William Butler Yeats)
An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
She said, 'Don't I know you from the cinematographer's party?' I said, 'Who am I to blow against the wind? View quote
Paul Simon
Who am I to blow against the wind? View quote
Paul Simon
You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. View quote
Timothy Dalton
The earth belongs to nobody except the wind. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. View quote
Federico García Lorca
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. (Mark Ruffalo)
I follow you - because I must. Do you think I am not afraid of death? I am afraid because I do not know what there is, and see only darkness without end; which makes me recoil. I do not know whether there be nothingness, or existence without space and time; perhaps some midplanetary wind carries the spiritual monad from star to star to implant it in an ever-renewing existence. I do not know whether there be immense restlessness, or a peace so perfect as only Omnipotence and Love can bestow on us. But since you have died through my "I do not know," how could I remain here - and live? The more I fear, the more I do not know, - the more I cannot let you go alone; I cannot, Aniela mine, - and I follow. Together we shall sink into nothingness, or together begin a new life; and here below where we have suffered let us be buried in oblivion. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau. Mock on, mock on - 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. View quote
William Blake
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
No wind favors he who has no destined port. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again-and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
Toy balloon once kidnapped by the wind - come home, and I will say: There are no children here. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
The room smelled like a gust of wind from Satan's anus. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. View quote
Eden Ahbez
At my door the leaves are falling; A cold wild wind has come. Sweethearts walk by together; And I still miss someone. (Johnny Cash)
Memories belong in the soil, in stone, in wind. They are the land's unseen meaning, such that touches the soul of all who would look - truly look - upon it. Touches, in faintest whisper, old, almost shapeless echoes - to which a mortal life adds its own. View quote
Steven Erikson
I am Arnaut who love the wind, And chase the hare with the ox, And swim against the torrent. View quote
Arnaut Daniel
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. View quote
Alison Bechdel
It's simply a national acknowledgement that in any kind of priority, the needs of human beings must come first. Poverty is here and now. Hunger is here and now. Racial tension is here and now. Pollution is here and now. These are the things that scream for a response. And if we don't listen to that scream - and if we don't respond to it - we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble, looking for the truck that hit us - or the bomb that pulverized us. Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream. And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name. View quote
Rod Serling