The Wind Quotes

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

You can't let any team awe you. If you do, you'll wind up a horseshit player.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.

Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.