Best Wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.”

“Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.”

Wind Losing Lows Accounts Dollars Investment Average Obligation Earning Proposal Latina

Author:Grace Napolitano

“Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.”

Men Sun Tree Land Wind Universal Blessed Casts Seeds Soil Rooted Beam Emigration

Author:Robert Southey

“The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.”

Giving Writing Heart Long Use Age Young Secret Sun Path Sky Advice Wind Blue Trade Paint Forgotten Dust Faithful Realms Shore Once Upon A Time Caress Young Writers

Author:Brian Jacques

“You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.”

Ifs Thinking Film Parent Walks Effects Wind Huge Adults Eight Dinner Brilliant Kurosawa

Author:Ann Patchett

“I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.”

Ifs I Can Running Chance Wind Jail Santa Spit County Don't Trust Judicial Barbara Judicial System Santa Barbara

Author:Randy Quaid

“The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.”

Needs House Walks Plans Car New York Wind Los Angeles Lunatic

Author:Michael Rapaport

“When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.”

Firsts Fans Wind

Author:Sally Rand

“I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.”

Book Gone Fans Wind

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources.”

“You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.”

Feels Looks Littles Earth Night Humanity Energy Stars Sky Wind Buddhism Purity Dots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?”

Doe Love Is Wind Buddhism Sexuality Criticize Love Is Like

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stills Self Bigs Remember Memories Wind Reader Findings Our Family Theme Vivid Incidents Our Memories Saga Self Contained

Book:Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

“There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.”

Thinking Way Important Sides Pay Wind Passionate Waitress

Author:Juno Temple

“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.”

Thinking Trying Hard Force Technology Figures Wind Our Society Gale

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'”

Different Four Wind Machines Fantastic Pretending Unbelievable Believable Fantastic Four Airships

Author:Kerry Washington

“Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.”

Inspirational Use Emotion Journey Wind Buddhism Gains Navigate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

Self Together Sound Loss Wind Bird Gains Wave Self Realization Realization Beach Settling Transition Hinduism Together Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.”

Believe Stills Morning Wind Spring Plant Snow Weather Spite Unexpected Bigotry Gardener

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.”

Black Wind Anger Management Storm Passing Passings Anger Management

Author:James Vila Blake

“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.”

May Running Opportunity Individual Left Goal Path Wind Pure Weight Oneself Burden Block Motive Stopping Trails Frustrating Dropping Shouting Sidelines

Author:Criss Jami

“I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.”

Giving Mind Littles I Can Ideas Body Moving Possibility Wind Giving Up Celebrate Redemption Substance Love Life Never Giving Up Exclamation Never Give Up On Love Exclamation Points

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.”

Ends Wind Shadow Capture Rainbow New Beginnings Starting Over Keep Moving Forward Beginning Fresh Start Giving Up Is Not An Option Never Surrender

Book:Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

Source: Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

“Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.”

Leadership Fate Risk Wind Burning Flames Spite Unexpected Opposition Great Leader Great Leadership

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.”

Song Wind Ocean Justification

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I will move with the wind.”

Moving Nature Wind

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!”

Light Song Company Tree Wind Moon Eternal Bird Shadow Lonely Clouds Lonely Trees

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Sometimes Happens Games Sports Knowing Wind One Day Throwing Anything Can Happen

Author:Barry Zito

“The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.”

Hard Wind Mountain West South Eastern Slopes

Author:Tim Cahill

“Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.”

Stills Book Night Wind

Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.”

Looks Able Used Wind Train Warm Looking Good

Author:Jenn Suhr

“The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.”

Technology Design Wind Waste Creating Bases Productions Architecture Eras Posts Housing Ecological Petroleum Utilization Food Production

Author:John Todd

“It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.”

Watches Struggle Sea Wind Wave Pleasant Shore Total War Dashing

Author:Lucretius

“Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.”

Ifs Men Want Ideas Hands Political Worry Wind Musical Political Systems

Author:Frank Zappa

“It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.”

Way Mother Sea Brother Wind Window Regard Noise My Brother Fashionable Chimes

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

Giving Art Character Process Objects Wind Shapes Essentials Perception Definitions Delight East Boundaries Artistic Firm Outlines No Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.”

Knows Want Doe Earth Wind Sail Captains

Author:Ami Ayalon

“Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.”

Knows Want Firsts Doe Earth Wind Easier Agree Sail Captains

Author:Ami Ayalon

“If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!”

Ifs Today Wanted Wind Bird

Author:A. A. Milne

“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

Men Heart May Passion Cases Fire Wind Add Arise Burning Ignite Wild Passion

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.”

Men Art Life Is Courses Sea Wind Series Currents Ships Conquer Crush Tides Reducing

Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

“Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.”

Jobs Talking Sun Nice Wind Green

Author:James Hansen

“I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.”

Looks I Can Air Wind Look Up Up In The Air

Author:Breaux Greer

“There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.”

I Can Shows Eye Wind Ears Scripts Advertising Show Business Sabrina

Author:Marc Cherry

“For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.”

Years States Home Winning Gone Wind Battle Late Georgia Atlanta Premieres

Author:Anne Edwards

“Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.”

Energy Stars Rooms Rocks Wind Keys Cards Equipment Rock Star Innovators Operators Solar Energy Business Card Wind Power

Author:Thomas Friedman

“He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”

Love Made Song Turns Voice Wind

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.”

Way Earth Opportunity Born Sea Wind Currents Spread Sail Right Way

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.”

Thinking Has Beens Nature Morning Sun Fire Wind Flower Hair Summer Silver Autumn Yellow Butterfly Mist Meadows Yellow Leaves Morning Mist

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.”

Trouble Wind Edges Woods Snow Forests Thick Fleece Plies Saplings

Author:A. E. Housman

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