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“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.”

Wells Art Hard Artist Order Sound Space Wind Asking Beast Sensibility Lit Maximum Rumor Gallery Traction

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.”

Wells Water Nature Wind Mountain Crystals

Book:John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails

Source: John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails

“There are certain episodes that on the page I thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be the funniest episode." And there are other ones that went in, fingers crossed, saying, "Oh well, let's hope something good comes out of it." Oftentimes, those ones wind up being the best ones.”

Wells Certain Boys Wind Pages Fingers Being The Best Episodes Oh Well Fingers Crossed

Author:Charlie Day

“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.”

People Wells I Can Feelings Speak Sleep Sun Tree Wind Glad Indian Babe Good Feeling Sleep Well Apaches

Author:Geronimo

“In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.”

Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

“Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.”

People World Wells Belief Wind Comfortable Warm Uncertainty Worn Illogical Chilly

Book:Foundation and Earth

Source: Foundation and Earth

“The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.”

“O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O well-remembered, rainy wind, blow all my care away, / That I may be a child again this blissful morn of May.”

Wells May Children Care Faces Fall Heaven Morning Tears Sweet Wind Dear Blow Warm Familiar Remembered Rainy Happy Morning Familiar Places

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.”

Wells Different Moving Language Sound Voice Air Tree Wind Shapes Summer Fingers Tone Theme Dry Autumn Strings Harsh Leafs Filling Harps Murmuring

Book:The Glory of the Garden

Source: The Glory of the Garden

“According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.”

Mind Wells Feelings Might Joy Passion Brain Study Our Lives Wind Disease Patterns Dust Destructive Humankind Robots Devastation Barricades

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.”

Wells I Can My Own Wind Bird Blow

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.”

Men Mind Wells Matter Results Effort Wind Development Genius Higher Thousand Labor Gold Eternity Stronger Faculty Commerce Currency Folds

Author:Edward Miner Gallaudet

“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.”

Thinking Should Wells Natural Known Break Wind These Days Permit Well Known Natural Things

Author:Honore de Balzac

“There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.”

Ifs Wells Done Change Issues Wind Leap Palestinian Winds Of Change

Author:Yair Lapid

“The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.”

Ifs World Needs Wells May Has Beens Happens Suffering Water Cities Environment Plans Wind Environmental Landscape Hostile Emergencies Stewardship Neglected Careless Starks Bruises

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.”

Ifs Believe Wells Wanted Asks Space Support Struggle Saws Greater Air Possibility Wind Machines Stronger Speed Conquer Gentleman Aviation Receiving Predictions Adapted Susceptible

Author:Jules Verne

“They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." Well, then it's minus 3, asshole! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!”

Ifs Knows Needs Wells Humor Today Funny Lying Perfect Conditions Wind Degrees Weather Nonsense Chill Minus

Author:Lewis Black

“He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.”

Wells Healing Wind Drink Mountain Senses Controlled Moderates Food And Drink Rocky Mountain

Author:Gautama Buddha

“As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.”

Wells Might Waiting Land Wind Republican Down And Fairy Idle

Book:Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry

Source: Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry

“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind. Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I may spend his time in vain. And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about: Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”

Knows Mind Wells May Mean Seems Behinds Doubt Written Wind Draws Fairs Letters Rounds Lists Vain Necks Diamond Hunts Deer Fainting Noli Me Tangere

Author:Thomas Wyatt

“Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.”

World Wells Dies Turns Pay Mankind Wind Taxes Sail Tails Making Love Axes Heads Or Tails

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.”

Wells Sky Land Wind Habit Deny Native Permit Traits Variation

Author:Virgil

“"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.”

Knows Wells May Might Jobs Asks Imagination Planets Wind Prisoner Figments

Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.”

“Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.”

Wells Book Wanted Form Decision Wind These Days Print Publishers Updates Print Books

Author:Bob Colacello

“You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.”

People Wells Might Today Wind Cost Output

Author:Bill Gates

“I was crying when I was editing [Beacher] but I stopped all the screenings years ago because I had a headache but then I had seen it again... Well I always cry at the same place, when they play that song "Wind Beneath My Wings". It gets you.”

Years Wells Play Song Cry Wind Years Ago Wings Editing Headache Screening

Author:Garry Marshall

“There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.”

Wells Said Stories Would Be Eye Three Water Seeing Wind Walking Fairs Drinking Ships His Eyes Sailing Earthquakes Marvellous Another Time Seashore

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.”

“That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.”

Wells Littles Two Courses Games Bits Sports Term Impossible Team Wind Comfort Little Bit Golf Rounds Weather Data Opponents Golf Course Two Days Handicaps Predicting Sports Team

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.”

Giving Wells Heart Soul Feelings Action Sports Water Teach Wind Return Boat Sailing Heart And Soul Alertness Boats And Sailing Sailing And Wind

Author:George Matthew Adams

“If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.”

Ifs Wells Book Sometimes Character Reality Lasts Fiction Wind Pages Caught Plot Swept Away

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.” And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? I’m alive too.” Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.”

Firsts Wells Long Made Said Whole Together Felt Voice Known Sun Alive Wind Hair Cold First Time Excuse Tiny Ice Relax Chests Splits Leaving Me Flocks Fangs Excuse Me I'm Alive Chilly

Author:James Patterson

“Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!”

Wells May Done Lasts Fall Behinds Break Journey Sky Wind Bed Mountain Waste Rain Blow Woods Halls Tall Dread Toil Foe Haste Misty Errands Moors Sped

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.”

Knows Writing Wells Ends Life Is Challenges Journey Middle Wind Discovery Remains Where You Are Puzzles

Author:Anna Quindlen

“That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time”

Wells Made Moving Mother Next Felt Gone Wind Balance Cost Stones Add Dancing Corners Smallest Next Time Backseat Trivial Things Maybe Next Time

Author:Joanne Harris

“Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.”

Men Wells Book Character Stories Dream Lost Novel Wind Pages Shadow Hatred Betrayal Broke Jackets True Story Victorian Lost Friendship Bookshops Shadow Of The Wind

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land”

Source: The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

“What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.”