Wind Quotes
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I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away.
Haruki Murakami
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I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
C. S. Lewis
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Chicago at the time owned a lake the size of a sea, several advertising firms, at least six tribes of marauding criminals, healthy herds of sailors grazing free, the first Ferris wheel in all the world, and more wind than it could care for.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When his mouth snaps shut a third time, I splash water in his face. “Are you going to say something or are you trying to catch wind and sail?
Anna Banks
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To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
Milarepa
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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
William Butler Yeats
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My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
Dolly Parton
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the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.
Anaximenes of Miletus
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I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.
Bill Richardson
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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
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Under the yaller pines I house,When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,An' hear among their furry boughsThe baskin' west-wind purr contented.
James Russell Lowell
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Drunk on the wind in my mouth,Wringing the handlebar for speed,Wild to be wreckage forever.
James Dickey
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Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.
Gabrielle Roy
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When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
Clive Owen
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
Rumi
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In Congress, I've advocated for an all-of-the-above energy policy that identifies and promotes alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass and hydropower.
Elise Stefanik
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Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
Eliot Weinberger
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A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.
William Faulkner
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Hollywood has successfully produced many films framed by anti-racist or pro-integrationist story lines. I'm going to guess that since 'Gone With The Wind,' Hollywood realized films about racism and segregation pull at the heartstrings of everyone and hopefully serve to purge a sense of guilt.
Joe Morton
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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
George Lois
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March in Ireland can be a very lovely month, if you like your air rain-washed and your light wind-shaken.
John Banville
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I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
Bridget Fonda
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The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.
Charles Dickens
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Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
Bob Kaufman