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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.”

Ifs Needs Conditions Objects Wind Cost Percent Gun Europe Fruit Western Rate Arguing Bunch Combat Tanks Grapes Pentagon Rigor Purchasing Tactical Western Europe

Author:Dave Barry

“For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.”

Ifs Men Mind Light Heaven Wise Wind Reflection Flow Blow East Folly

Author:Edmund Spenser

“There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.”

Ifs Reason Cases Modern Wind Balance Equal Obvious Combination Strings Interpretation Satisfying Composition Orchestra Adapted Modern Music

Author:John Philip Sousa

“To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.”

Ifs Important Use Problem Simple Education Ready Wind Clue

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.”

Ifs Knows Looks Happens Today Gone Wind

Author:Kelly Lynch

“I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.”

Ifs Believe Persons Lost I Believe Pleasure Compassion Moral Seeing Wind Ethics I Believe In Jail Swings Delay Compass Better Person Moral Compass

Author:Tom DeLay

“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.”

People Ifs Thinking Hard Enough Happens Growth Change Work Beauty Wind Hard Work Bounds Weather Starting Anew

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.”

Ifs Giving May Inspiration Faith Left Wind Quiet Christian Inspirational Tiny Useless Sparks Within You God's Love Chatter

Author:Carlo Borromeo

“The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.”

“There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.”

Ifs Trying Wind Meant To Be

Author:Mikky Ekko

“When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.”

Ifs May Has Beens Fall Tree Strength Wind Roots Weak Blow Firm Stakes Fierce

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”

Ifs Felt Silence Wind Fine Pure Brilliant Floats Slides Vibrations

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.”

Ifs May Stills Wind Comes And Goes

Author:Teresa of Avila

“On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.”

Ifs Men Should Left My Own Principles He Man Wind Fool Republican Standing Abuse Bills Clinton My Time Devices Stations Bus Fairness Unfair Pointing Hideous Chili

Author:Molly Ivins

“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.”

Ifs Writing Achieve Wind Glory Accidents Immortality Adam Economist Fling Pluck

Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

“Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.”

Ifs World Book Moving Night Levels Democracy Wind Happenings Selling Moving Away Top Down Winds Of Change

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.”

Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers

“Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.”

Ifs Looks Stills Eye Grows Water Growing Up Air Sea Sky Wind Hair Blue Calm Dear Blow Smell Brands Sand Brand New Fresh Air

Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

“Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”

Ifs Knows Doe Matter Purpose Universe Our Lives Fields Wind Machines Function Grass Thread Galaxy Blades Wind Blowing

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

Ifs Should Spiritual Secret Tree Wind Blame Gossip Revealing Rumor Secret Love Keeping Secrets Blaming Others Kept Secrets Gossiping And Rumors

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.”

Ifs Hands Fall Hours Break Wind Glasses Profit Blow Weather Honey Bloody Day To Day

Author:Louis MacNeice

“If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.”

Ifs Poor Poverty Sun Wind Clothes Winter Ran Our Family Torn Overcoat

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.”

Ifs Mind Littles Philosophy Differences Wind Intellectual Statements Operations Intimate Discourse Complacency

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.”

Ifs Self Feelings Sweet Wind Spring Murder Blame Guilt Endure Rounds Ghost Chosen Necks Rope Obliged Imposing Humiliating Downtrodden Guilt Trip

Author:Mordecai Richler

“Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.”

Ifs World Persons Hands Moving Felt Voice Talking Wind Huge Grass Tess

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?”

People Ifs Writing Would Be Games Wind Angel Shadow Okay Upset Shadow Of The Wind

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.”

“If Carrie Ford wins the National I'll bare my backside to the wind, and let everyone kick it.”

Ifs Winning Wind Kicks Carrie Backsides

Author:Ginger McCain

“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.”

People Ifs Years Kind Different Hard Moments Process Chance Changed Wind Blow Scary Breathe Boat Lakes Different Kinds Canoeing

Author:Seth Godin

“Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.”

Ifs Night Social Half Quality Talking Wind Authority Ocean Window Independence Institutions Accepted Sheep Shepherds Roaring

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.”

People Ifs Way Feels Kind Sometimes Together Certain Sides Wonder Sun Tree Rocks Wind Standing My Family Folks Blow Snow Hardest Welcome Hills Folds Hail Standing Alone

Author:Nancy E. Turner

“Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!”

Ifs Two Play Fighting Games Millions Five Wind Tennis Bucks Jimmy Muhammad Exhibitions

Author:Johnny Bench

“If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".”

Ifs Writing America Meditation Teaching Wind Buddhism West Autobiography Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.”

Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations

“It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Book Enough Strong Wind Ocean Wave Strong Enough

Author:Klaus Kinski

“But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling. I suspect this is why fundamentalists who condemn New Age channelers do not dismiss it as a fraud..., but instead think that Ramtha and the others are channeling demons. If they said it was sheer delusion, they know where the other four fingers would wind up pointing!”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Said Age Cases Four Atheism Effects Wind Fingers Positive Atheism Demon Delusion Suspects Fraud Sheer They Said New Age Pointing Channeling Personal Relationships

Author:Robert M. Price

“I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.”

People Ifs Hard Bigs Easy Talent Wind Combination Diminish Neurosis Working Too Hard

Author:Mel Brooks

“If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).”

Ifs Should War States Nations United United States Wind Conviction United Nations Rendering Dominating

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Heart Spirit Song Wind Quiet Longing Hearing Lifts Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.”

Ifs Fun Wind Having Fun

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.”

Ifs Men Way Made Energy Accepting Security Wind Theory Climate Climate Change Rotten Emissions Co2 Turbines Energy Security Wind Turbines Co2 Emissions

Author:Roger Helmer

“There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.”

Ifs Should Light Known Sky Wind Spring Red Should Have Essence Clouds Warm Rising Sunshine Pale Sinking Restlessness Impulsive Prairie Should Have Known Blindfolds

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.”

Ifs Trying Growing Wind Flower Skills Smell Herbs Shrubs

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.”

Ifs Heart Spirit Rich Wind Fit Taste Criticism Communicate Excellent Generous Champagne Sour Muddy Sparkling Vapid Colic

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words