Wind Quotes

• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Done
  • Soul
  • Garden

• You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone's going to like or not like, and doing test screenings and opinion polls. But pay too much mind to that, and you'll wind up with a big pile of mush.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • People
  • Together
  • Wind

• We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Up
  • Different
  • Respect

• You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Father
  • Guy

• When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Power

• The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Bad

• Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Joy
  • Path
  • Wind

• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Words
  • Water
  • Fire

• Sometimes the beauty is easy.Sometimes you don't have to try at all.Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Poetry
  • Wall
  • Blow

• My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

  

  Doug Flutie
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Done

• Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Air

• There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth - an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Free

• I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • Up
  • Wind

• He’d run and run until his heart burst into flames. And he would become nothing but ash. No body, no heart, no bone, no flesh—just carbon matter scattering in the wind.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Heart
  • Flesh
  • Flames

• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.

  

  Rain
  • Fall
  • Dark
  • Cold

• The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

  

  Livy
  • Sea
  • Wind

• You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Business

• I wrote most of 'Hello in There' in a relay box, which looks like a mail box, only bigger. Sometimes, it was so cold and windy on my mail route that I'd go inside the relay box and eat a sandwich, just to get away from the wind. I remember working on 'Hello in There' inside the relay box.

  

  John Prine
  • Working
  • Box
  • Sandwich

• The teacher offers guidance here and there, but the primary factor, the driving force, in your relationship and work together is the student's own commitment and desire to learn. Teaching is like sailing: The wind and the sails give the boat its motion. Your role (as a teacher) is to steer and guide.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Work
  • Together
  • Relationship

• When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Party
  • Hair
  • Wind

• I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him.

  

  Christine Ebersole
  • Wind

• Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

  

  John Muir
  • Space
  • Heaven
  • Sun

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