Quotes and Sayings about Wind
"I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, Idea, Press, Public, Thinking, Will, Wind)
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People, Old, Walking, Windows, Years)
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
- Aesop
(Related: Force, Wind)
"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies."
- Eden Ahbez
(Related: Being, Earth, Heaven, Rain, Wind)
"I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Car, Hair, Windows)
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Light, Windows, World)
"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Direction, Fame, Name, Now, Wind)
"Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform."
- Jim Allchin
(Related: Jobs, Order, Popular, Want, Windows)
"Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Will)
"A Boston man is the east wind made flesh."
- Thomas Gold Appleton
(Related: Boston, Man, Wind)
"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Nature, Control, Man, Mind, Play, Sons, Wind)
"My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work."
- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
(Related: Work, First, Planning, Research)
"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Wind)
"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."
- Daisy Ashford
(Related: Idea, Wind)
"I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast."
- Evelyn Ashford
(Related: Wind)
"I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Wind)
"The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Day, Snow, Weather)
"Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms."
- Milton Avery
(Related: Nature, Colors, Drama, Fantasy, Mountains, Trees, Wind)
"The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours."
- Charles Babbage
(Related: Effect)
"The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted."
- Jan Peter Balkenende
(Related: War, Ideals, Iron curtain, Loyalty, Memories, Now, Weight, World, World war)
"There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind."
- Johnny Ball
(Related: Job, Wind)
"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: HusbDifference, Lady, Lies, Night)
"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Time, May, Race, Running, Weather, Wind)
"There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!"
- Amiri Baraka
(Related: Family, Facts)
"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Government, Privacy)
"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Travel, Opportunity, Rain, Will)
"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Love, Music, Trying)
"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow."
- Roy Bean
(Related: Land, Snow, Will, Wind, Winter)
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Reason, Wind)
"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: Body)
"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Soul, Eyes, Quotations, Windows)
"A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Car, Culture, Man, Wind)
"For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting."
- Robert Benchley
(Related: Time, Evil, Nation, Reputation, Waiting, Windows)
"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: Faith, Attitude, Church, Teaching, Today, Wind)
"I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing."
- Warren Bennis
(Related: Thought, Control, Being, End, Influence, Man, President)
"My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Mother, Father, Sister, Windows)
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
- Yogi Berra
(Related: Wind)
"Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Civil rights, Open, Will, Windows)
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach."
- Henry Beston
(Related: Nature, Beach, Ocean, Rain, Sound, Wind, Wood)
"They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers."
- Jello Biafra
(Related: Disguise, Fact)
"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Constitution, Judges, Wind)
"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Computer, Months, Now, Possibilities, Windows)
"Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?"
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Life, Work, Actor, Eye, Will, Wind)
"In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs."
- William Bligh
(Related: Hope, Being, Months, Summer)
"Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome."
- William Bligh
(Related: Adventure, Ships, Summer, Water, Winter, Wood)
"All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds."
- William Bligh
(Related: Adventure)
"Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind."
- Maxwell Bodenheim
(Related: Poetry, Wind)
"Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path."
- Bodhidharma
(Related: Joy, Wind)
"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car, Children, Saying, Windows)
"Never have more children than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car, Children, Windows)
"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron."
- Lizzie Andrew Borden
(Related: Father, Kitchen, Office, Post, Windows)
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
- Robert Bork
(Related: Fashion, Law)
"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."
- Nadia Boulanger
(Related: Life, Attention, Trying, Windows)
"But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Love, Country, End, Now, Play, Song, Songs, Wind)
"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."
- Johannes Brahms
(Related: Inspiration, Wind)
"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Force, Wind)
"Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars."
- Tim Bray
(Related: Art, Name, Publishing)
"The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds."
- Phil Bredesen
(Related: Genius, America, Deeds, Land, Night, Open, Visions)
"A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Car, Guitar, Old, Songs, Woman)
"Popular applause veers with the wind."
- John Bright
(Related: Applause, Popular, Wind)
"Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house."
- Benjamin Britten
(Related: Driving, Road, Windows)
"I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness."
- David Bromstad
(Related: Darkness, Rules, Space, Windows)
"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Heart, Wind)
"A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Nature, Light, Wind)
"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."
- Rupert Brooke
(Related: Sun)
"There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window."
- Dan Brown
(Related: Car, Stress)
"The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time."
- David M. Brown
(Related: Science, Time, Earth, Space)
"The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture."
- Robert McAfee Brown
(Related: Church, Content, Culture)
"I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive."
- William Wells Brown
(Related: Temple, Brothers, Constitution, Heaven, Liberty, Slavery)
"The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at."
- William C. Bryant
(Related: Eye, Heaven, Spring)
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Business, World)
"When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Light, Pen, Pollution)
"In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Country, Production, Wind)
"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Society, Adultery, Murder, Preaching)
"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
- Leo Buscaglia
(Related: Play, Wind)
"By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from."
- Gerard Butler
(Related: First, Singing, Voice, Windows)
"Oaths are but words, and words are but wind."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Wind, Words)
"Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large."
- John Byng
(Related: Enemy, Force, Numbers, Wind)
"What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content."
- Gabriel Byrne
(Related: Life, Content, Song)
"What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: Wind, World)
"O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?"
- Ada Cambridge
(Related: Life, Fire, Wind)
"I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window."
- Eddie Campbell
(Related: Direction)
"You have to keep in mind that we don't run Windows, we don't have disks, we don't do Internet."
- John Campbell
(Related: Internet, Mind, Windows)
"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."
- Roger Caras
(Related: Fear, Pain, Rest)
"Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20."
- Eric Carle
(Related: Work, People, Idea, Wind, Word, Words)
"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Intellect, Trade)
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Nature, Garden, Human nature, Living, Roses, Today, Windows)
"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Life, Enthusiasm, Today)
"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Wind, Wonder)
"The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Life, Eyes, Will, Wind)
"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
- Mary Cassatt
(Related: Art, Life)
"Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Giants)
"The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response."
- Margaret Chan
(Related: Opportunity, Community)
"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."
- Chanakya
(Related: Power, Truth, Earth, Rest, Sun)
"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
- Chanakya
(Related: Direction, Flowers, Goodness, Wind)
"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Boredom, Passion)
"I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Life, Being, May)
"It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy."
- Geraldine Chaplin
(Related: Change, Spain)
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(Related: History, Time, Love, God, Fire, Gravity, Man, Tides, Will, World)
"Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire."
- Teilhard de Chardin
(Related: History, Time, Love, God, Fire, Gravity, Tides, Will, World)
"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."
- John Cheever
(Related: People, Adultery, American, Ceremony, Rain, Woman, Writer)
"One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Economy, World)
"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
- Leroy Chiao
(Related: Earth)
"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Music, Earth, Wind, Wonder)
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Kites, Wind)
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Fashion, Girls, Schools)
"But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it."
- Guy Clark
(Related: Time, Home, Being, Wood)
"Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: God, Existence, Now, Wind)
"I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!"
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Bed, Cause, Feeling, Fire, Night, Walking)
"You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death."
- Brian P. Cleary
(Related: Death, Beginning, Books, End, Want, Wind)
"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: Truth, Consideration, Man, Responsibility, Wind)
"I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Wind)
"I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars."
- Jacqueline Cochran
(Related: Travel, Stars, Wind)
"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
- Ornette Coleman
(Related: First, Play, Talking, Wind, Years)
"A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose."
- Carlo Collodi
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Circumstances, Commerce)
"I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air."
- George Combe
(Related: Americans, First, Ladies, Gentlemen, Windows)
"We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: Home, Pretty, Right, Trade, Windows, World)
"I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far."
- Billy Connolly
(Related: Angels, Space, Wind)
"Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Power, Force, Investment, Jobs, Potential, State, Wind)
"We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Men, Politics, Midnight, Office, Oil)
"I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window."
- Coolio
(Related: Driving, Smoking, Wrong)
"The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like."
- John Sherman Cooper
(Related: Fact, Man, Tests)
"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'"
- Tommy Cooper
(Related: Driving, Today)
"I went window shopping today! I bought four windows."
- Tommy Cooper
(Related: Windows)
"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Fancy, Listening, London, Open, Summer, Thrushes)
"There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Love, Moon, Name, Wind)
"On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea."
- Patricia Cornwell
(Related: War, Darkness, Fire, Sea)
"Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air."
- Patricia Cornwell
(Related: Night, Wind)
"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed."
- Gregory Corso
(Related: Food, Pretty)
"Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government."
- Jim Costa
(Related: Government, Mercy, State)
"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: God, Car, Opera)
"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl."
- William Cowper
(Related: Soul, Children, Dogs, Windows)
"Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window."
- Alan Cox
(Related: Quality, Project, Will, World)
"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
- Robert Crippen
(Related: Earth)
"I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out."
- Joe Cronin
(Related: Rank, Wind)
"I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists."
- Harry Crosby
(Related: Gay, Wind, World)
"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Nature, Birds, Insects, Sense, Water, Wind)
"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."
- e. e. cummings
(Related: Autumn, Rain, Sky, Trees, Wind)
"We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: America, Fun, Today)
"'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable."
- Timothy Dalton
(Related: Film, Glory, Opera, Wind)
"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."
- Charles Dance
(Related: Manager, Saying)
"If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay."
- Charles Dance
(Related: Dance, Impression, Talk, Talking, Wind)
"I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind."
- Edwidge Danticat
(Related: Being, Country, Future, Wind)
"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Eye)
"It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow."
- Jonathan Davis
(Related: Poison, Want)
"I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why."
- Dizzy Dean
(Related: Delay)
"All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it."
- Dizzy Dean
(Related: Careers, Giants, Help, Want, Wind)
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
- Jimmy Dean
(Related: Change, Direction, Wind)
"When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Car)
"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."
- Michael Dell
(Related: Design, Selling, Care, Customer, Linux, Windows)
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
- Democritus
(Related: Moderation)
"We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds."
- Ruth St. Denis
(Related: Night, Songs, Stars)
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Light, March, Summer, Sun, Wind, Winter)
"Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk."
- Bruce Dickinson
(Related: Life, Road, Want)
"A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded."
- Bruce Dickinson
(Related: Conflict, Interest, Now)
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Dawn)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Poetry, Right, Wind)
"Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: Love, Time, Wrong)
"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Energy, Spiritual, Wind)
"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Excitement, First, Impossibility, Writer)
"Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything."
- Willie Dixon
(Related: Possibility, Nothing)
"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"
- John Donne
(Related: Fool, Lovers, Old, Seasons, Sun, Windows)
"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: Men, Will, Wind)
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: Fire, Light)
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Country, Future, Night, Road, Trying)
"Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Time, Idea, Writing)
"The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Nature, Character, Fire, Spiritual, Water, Wind)
"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."
- John Eaton
(Related: Technology, Idea, Enemies)
"For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late."
- Anne Edwards
(Related: Home, Winning, Battle, State, Wind, Years)
"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
- Dave Eggers
(Related: December)
"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Sex, Will, Wind)
"They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life."
- Black Elk
(Related: Life, Lying, Man, Medicine)
"The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God."
- Jim Elliot
(Related: God, Sound, Will, Wind, Word)
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
- Henry Ellis
(Related: Civilization, Doubt, Population, Suicide, Tension)
"They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Wind)
"Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion."
- Michael Ende
(Related: Fashion, Rain, Trees, Wind)
"The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller."
- Susan Estrich
(Related: Politics, Opportunity, American)
"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
- Euripides
(Related: Misery, Wind)
"When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis."
- Chris Evert
(Related: Tennis, Wind)
"The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity."
- Ron Fairly
(Related: Wind)
"I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt."
- Edie Falco
(Related: Being)
"The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind."
- William Falconer
(Related: Direction, Effect, Wind)
"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God."
- Frances Farmer
(Related: God, Lie, Hair, Night, Talk, Trees)
"We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums."
- Diane Feinstein
(Related: Achievement, Chance, End, Russia, states, United, Weapons, Wind, World)
"We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq."
- Douglas Feith
(Related: War, Country, Friends, Iraq, Will, Wind, World)
"People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there."
- Rio Ferdinand
(Related: People, Night, Reality)
"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."
- Adam Ferguson
(Related: Men, Society, Philosophy)
"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
- Rachel Field
(Related: Fire, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Wind)
"The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Dreams, Old, Wind)
"It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Guests, Washington, Will)
"When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill."
- Howard Finster
(Related: Vision, Building)
"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
- Martin Henry Fischer
(Related: Birds, Drugs)
"I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out."
- Carlton Fisk
(Related: Being, Feet, Question, Want, Wind)
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Water, Wind)
"I come like Water, and like Wind I go."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Water, Wind)
"Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect."
- Robert Fitzgerald
(Related: Direction, Force, Light, Neglect, Weather, Wind)
"Wisdom sails with wind and time."
- John Florio
(Related: Time, Wisdom, Wind)
"I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan."
- Bill Ford
(Related: Management)
"I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of."
- Glenn Ford
(Related: Money, Thought, Actor, Silly, Wind)
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Wind)
"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Now, School, Students)
"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Stars, Trees, Wind)
"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Houses, Nothing, Quantity, Windows)
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."
- Janet Frame
(Related: Day, Electricity, Wind)
"As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself."
- David Friedman
(Related: Time, Trust, Songs, Wind)
"There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop."
- Nat Friedman
(Related: People, Collaboration, Linux, Machines, Now, Windows)
"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well."
- Fred Frith
(Related: Wind)
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Death, May, Understanding)
"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
- Stephen Fry
(Related: World)
"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."
- Paul Fussell
(Related: People, Americans, Anxiety, Automobiles, College, University, World)
"We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces."
- Richard Le Gallienne
(Related: Faces, Flowers, Road, Song, Spring, Winter)
"The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise."
- Garet Garrett
"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm."
- Marcus Garvey
"People everywhere love Windows."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Love, People, Windows)
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
- Jean Genet
(Related: People, Shame, Wind)
"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say."
- Geronimo
(Related: God, Children, Darkness, Listening, Sun)
"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures."
- Geronimo
(Related: Light, Nothing, Sun, Wind)
"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."
- Geronimo
(Related: People, Feeling, Living, Now, Sleep, Sun, Trees)
"We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve."
- Alexi Giannoulias
(Related: Countries, Focus, Wind)
"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
- Edward Gibbon
"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
- Philip Gibbs
(Related: Deserted, Paris, Quiet, Shops, Windows)
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Blame, Secrets, Trees, Wind)
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Truth, Doctrine)
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Earth, Feet, Forget, Hair, Play)
"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Love, Dance, Sea)
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Earth, Feet, Forget, Hair, Play)
"I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now."
- Terry Gilliam
(Related: Brother, Beginning, Now, Present)
"Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails."
- Ian Gilmour
(Related: Power, Order, Politicians, Quest, Wind)
"I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest."
- David Ginola
(Related: Football, Holiday, Rest)
"English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens."
- David Ginola
(Related: Time, English, First, Football, Managers, Will)
"I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now."
- David Ginola
(Related: Financial, EnglEye, Now, Right, State)
"St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle."
- Rudy Giuliani
"I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these."
- Tom Glazer
(Related: College, Talk)
"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."
- John Glover
(Related: Fire, Open, Right, Wind, Worry)
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
- Arthur Golden
(Related: Adversity, Tears, Wind)
"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."
- William Golding
(Related: Flying, Sleep, Wind)
"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Caution, Mankind, World)
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Caution, Mankind, World)
"We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big."
- Austan Goolsbee
(Related: Government, People, Fire, Windows)
"The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Challenge, Energy, Machines, Right, Trying, Wind)
"Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Environment, Fancy, Film, Office, Wrong)
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
- Catherine the Great
(Related: Imagination, Wind)
"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."
- Harold H. Greene
(Related: Court, Day, Night, Washington, Windows)
"If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Life)
"Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!"
- Nanci Griffith
(Related: Attention, Being, Song)
"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
- Val Guest
(Related: Comedy, Film, Job)
"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
- Val Guest
(Related: Film, First, Murder)
"Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Policy, Opportunity, Defense, Energy, Foreign policy, Interest, Needs, Open, Support, Will, Windows)
"I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window."
- Jessica Hahn
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Thought, Knowledge, Mankind, Wind)
"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."
- David Hare
(Related: Thought, Knowledge, Wind)
"It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up."
- Lawrence Hargrave
(Related: Intelligence, Power, Effect, Force, Result, Weight, Wind)
"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft."
- Lawrence Hargrave
(Related: Birds, Sea, Wind)
"They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
- Arthur Harris
(Related: Now, Wind)
"Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind."
- Frank Harris
(Related: People, Kites, Opposition, Wind)
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Education, Purpose, Windows)
"Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore."
- Sterling Hayden
(Related: Life, Money, Wind)
"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
- Jeff Healey
(Related: Light, Years)
"Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind."
- Hermann von Helmholtz
(Related: Action, Germany, Want, Water, Wind)
"Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true."
- Don Henley
(Related: Forget, Will, Wind, Word)
"It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it."
- O. Henry
(Related: Love, Wind, World)
"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Family, Lie, Children, Language, Learning, Tradition)
"It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing."
- Matthew Henson
(Related: God, Work, Land, Snow, Wind)
"Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!"
- Jaime Hernandez
(Related: Car, Time, Life, Research, Rest)
"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."
- James Herriot
(Related: March, Spring, Wind)
"I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Bed, Excitement, Windows)
"It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Clothes, Houses, Joy, Sky)
"Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region."
- Antony Hewish
(Related: Clouds, Wind)
"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."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Nature, People, Listening, University, Wind)
"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
- Carl Hiaasen
(Related: First, Trees, Wind)
"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
- Tony Hillerman
(Related: Wind)
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
- Marjorie Holmes
(Related: Lie, Direction, Heaven, Wind, World)
"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Life, Clocks, Key)
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Thought, Wind)
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Lie, Wind)
"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."
- Homer
(Related: Wind, Words)
"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."
- Thomas Hood
(Related: People, Wind)
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: Dignity, Freedom, Open, Spirit)
"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."
- Horace
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
- Rogers Hornsby
(Related: People, Baseball, Spring, Winter)
"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Conscience, Evil, Spirit)
"As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Death, Freedom, Heaven, Open)
"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."
- Jean Houston
(Related: Creativity, Key, Meaning, Sense, Senses, Windows, World)
"As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Dreams, Future, Trying)
"Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Character, Play)
"What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind."
- Vernon Howard
(Related: Day, Mind, Open, Trying, Want, Windows)
"I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while."
- Kate Hudson
(Related: Fun, Will, Windows)
"After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: People, Water)
"What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes."
- John Huston
(Related: Idea, Inspiration, Force, Wind)
"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Anger, Mind, Wind)
"I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons."
- Jack Irons
(Related: Age, Music, Time, First, Months, Play, School)
"Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window."
- Jeremy Irons
"You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality."
- Amy Irving
(Related: Food, Music, Blood, Sexuality, Skin, Taste, Water, Wind)
"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring."
- Burl Ives
(Related: Birds, Singing, Spring, Wind)
"If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God, Blessings, Heaven, Open, Will, Windows)
"My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!"
- Derek Jacobi
(Related: First, Wind)
"I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Car, Day, Girls, Teenage, Walking)
"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture."
- Arne Jacobsen
(Related: Architecture, Deep, Houses, Necessity, Order, Play, Today, Windows)
"I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water."
- Jamelia
(Related: Water)
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
- William James
(Related: People, First, Wind)
"My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Music, Time, Eyes, Sky, Sun, Trees, Windows)
"Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."
- Claudia Johnson
(Related: Art, Soul, Man, World)
"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
- J. J. Johnson
(Related: Jazz)
"By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil."
- Tim Johnson
(Related: Encouraging, America, Dependence, Economy, Energy, Help, Oil, Wind)
"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Life, Key, Mistakes, Pain, Right, Suffering, Windows)
"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Wishing)
"The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA."
- Marion Jones
(Related: Sports, Career, Wind, World, Years)
"Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats."
- Terry Jones
(Related: People)
"For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Men, Time, Gold, Land, Mountains, Water)
"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Doubt)
"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
- Bill Joy
(Related: Windows)
"I just don't like to lose what's in the window."
- Bill Joy
"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Basketball, Being, Fact, Kentucky, Mind, Wind)
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Kiss, May, Night, Open)
"My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?"
- Andy Kaufman
(Related: Age, Mother, Brother, Boys)
"It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming."
- Garrison Keillor
(Related: Windows)
"By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life."
- Emmett Kelly
(Related: Life, Spiritual, Wind)
"With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Police, Responsibility)
"Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum."
- Jack Kemp
(Related: Winning, Day, Wind)
"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch."
- Yoshida Kenko
(Related: Heart, Nothing, Wind)
"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Women, Work, Children)
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Love, Time, Home, Buying, Man, May)
"My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics."
- Nancy Kerrigan
(Related: Life)
"I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?"
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Time, Flying, Fun, Windows)
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Marriage, Connection, Custom, Tradition, Traditions, Weather, Wind)
"Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Sky)
"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."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Ocean, Wind)
"When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Time, Chance, Open, Rain, Wind)
"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that."
- Eartha Kitt
(Related: Right, Wind)
"I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair."
- Evel Knievel
(Related: Love, Feeling, Hair, Wind)
"I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows."
- Edward Koch
(Related: First, Windows, Writers)
"Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left."
- Mort Kondracke
(Related: Living, Opponents)
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
- Rem Koolhaas
(Related: Winning)
"I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician."
- Leo Kottke
(Related: Time, Being, Fun, Right, Thinking)
"I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity."
- Barbara Kruger
(Related: Work, People, Opportunity, Attention, Space, Want)
"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(Related: Beauty)
"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(Related: Beauty, People, Darkness, Light, Sun, Windows)
"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
- Jacques Lacan
(Related: Flying, Letters)
"There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music."
- Nick Lachey
(Related: Music, Reflection, Song, Talk, Years)
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Hair, Man, Wind)
"Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes."
- Ann Landers
(Related: Advice, May, Mistakes, Wind)
"The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control."
- Jerome Lawrence
(Related: War, Thought, Control, Reason, Wind, Writing)
"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
- Jerome Lawrence
(Related: Opera, Play, Wind)
"In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly."
- Matt LeBlanc
(Related: Comedy, Silly, Wind)
"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: World)
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Wind)
"Bad weather always looks worse through a window."
- Tom Lehrer
(Related: Weather)
"It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride."
- Charles Godfrey Leland
(Related: Clouds, Light, Trees, Wind)
"President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?"
- David Letterman
(Related: Hell, Needs, President, Wind)
"We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: Night)
"A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: Time, Night)
"The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: People, Country, Day, Mountains)
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Acquaintance, Effort, Embarrassment)
"I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it."
- Bai Ling
(Related: Life, Nature, Goals, Respect, Wind)
"I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill."
- Franz Liszt
"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Time)
"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Sea, Wind)
"I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there."
- Meat Loaf
(Related: Now, Today)
"A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock."
- Jay London
(Related: Opportunity)
"Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind."
- Mario Lopez
(Related: Parents, Want)
"Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches."
- Federico Garcia Lorca
(Related: Want, Wind)
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Argument, Wind)
"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."
- Lucretius
(Related: Land)
"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."
- Lucretius
(Related: Joy, Man, Sea, Trouble)
"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Open, Theories)
"To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind."
- John Lyly
(Related: Fancy, Fire, Measure, Reason, Wind)
"You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today."
- Kelly Lynch
(Related: Right, Today, Wind)
"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will."
- John D. MacDonald
(Related: Change, Integrity, Man, Weather, Will, Wind, Word)
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
- Archibald MacLeish
(Related: American, Cities, Day, EnglFaces, Spring, Summer, Will)
"I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me."
- Joel Madden
(Related: Hope, America, Romantic, Windows)
"Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Marriage, Medical, People, Gay, Suicide)
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
- Norman Mailer
(Related: People, America, Eye, Sound, Wind)
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Life, Beginning, Desire, Wind)
"There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Life, Time, Man, Windows)
"We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth."
- George Leigh Mallory
(Related: Will, Wind)
"What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?"
- Thomas Malory
(Related: Wind)
"After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating."
- Method Man
(Related: Wind)
"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Books, Children, Man, Right, Windows)
"Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Survival, Fight, Self, Theft)
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
- Rudolph A. Marcus
(Related: Research)
"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Soul, Clouds, Existence, Flowers, Man, Rivers, Stars)
"The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it."
- Sterling Marlin
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Life, Difficulties, Pressure)
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?"
- Ralph Marston
(Related: Time, Children, Nothing, Quiet, Sea, Wind)
"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."
- John Masefield
(Related: Birds, Wind)
"I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: Comfort, Sense, Trying)
"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Windows, World, Writers)
"My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Opinion)
"Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard."
- Paul McCartney
"Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry."
- Michael McCaul
(Related: Agriculture)
"That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it."
- Hattie McDaniel
(Related: Wind)
"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them."
- Bryant H. McGill
(Related: Conversation, Opposition)
"I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption."
- John C. McGinley
(Related: Love, Character, Saying, Windows)
"My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm."
- John McGraw
(Related: Wind)
"I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan."
- Matthew McGrory
(Related: Wind)
"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Love, Windows)
"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."
- Scott McNealy
(Related: English, Right, Windows)
"I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Love, Chess, Months)
"Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."
- Grace Metalious
(Related: Sex, Girlfriend, Talk, Talking)
"To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."
- Grace Metalious
(Related: Sex, Talk, Talking)
"I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case."
- Jonathan Miller
(Related: Virtue, Difference, Present)
"I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out."
- Larry Miller
(Related: Body, Force, Wind)
"Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy."
- Stephanie Mills
(Related: Women, Want, Wind)
"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
- Wilson Mizner
(Related: Life, Party, Popularity)
"I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses."
- Brian Molko
(Related: Men, Time, Being, Girls, Guitar, Play)
"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Wind)
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
- Charles de Montesquieu
(Related: Life, Flies, Fortune, Visit)
"Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door."
- George Edward Moore
(Related: Beauty, Faith)
"I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
"My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: Son, Leading, Road, Yesterday)
"Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Sex, Soul, Body, Open, Prison, Senses)
"He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family."
- Andrew Morton
(Related: Family)
"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: Eyes, Shadows, Trees)
"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
(Related: Day, Heaven, Space, Sun, Traveling, Trees, Wind)
"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."
- Lewis Mumford
(Related: Help, Kites, Man, Opposition, Wind)
"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."
- Alice Munro
(Related: Time, People, Play, Tennis)
"When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly."
- Haruki Murakami
(Related: Time, Age, Machine, Old, Wind)
"Thus far we run before the wind."
- Arthur Murphy
(Related: Wind)
"The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window."
- Ajay Naidu
(Related: Life, Loneliness, Memories, Want)
"Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal."
- Grace Napolitano
(Related: Family, Money, Investment, Losing, Wind)
"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."
- George Jean Nathan
(Related: Art, Criticism, Darkness, Rest, Windows)
"I cannot command winds and weather."
- Horatio Nelson
(Related: Weather)
"Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing."
- Enid Nemy
(Related: Christmas, Office, Windows)
"Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great."
- Enid Nemy
(Related: Building, Nations, Rank, United, Windows)
"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day."
- Arnold Newman
(Related: Thought, Day, Houses, Light, Windows)
"The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face."
- Jack Nicklaus
(Related: Wind)
"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Coffee, Fire, Joy, Sun)
"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."
- Aristotle Onassis
(Related: Hope, Rest, Sea, Will)
"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."
- Suze Orman
(Related: Money)
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
- George Orwell
(Related: Appearance, Language, Lies, Murder, Sound, Wind)
"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
- George Orwell
(Related: Nothing, Personality, Prose)
"Good writing is like a windowpane."
- George Orwell
(Related: Writing)
"My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest."
- Haley Joel Osment
(Related: Favorite, Windows)
"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."
- John Owen
(Related: Gifts, Grace, May, Windows)
"A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world."
- Bill Owens
(Related: Change, Time, People, Opportunity, Commitment, Envy, Freedom, Nation, Principles, Tests, Wind, World)
"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."
- Grace Paley
(Related: World)
"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."
- Emmeline Pankhurst
(Related: Politics, Argument)
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
- Dolly Parton
(Related: Wind)
"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."
- Ann Patchett
(Related: Effect, Film, Parents, Thinking)
"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune."
- William Penn
(Related: Men, Power, Fortune, Trees)
"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Ideas, Hope, Values, America, Americans, Choices, Conservative, Now, Right, Waking, Wind, World)
"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Sheep, Wounds)
"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."
- Bernadette Peters
(Related: Friend, Connection, Day)
"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Opportunity)
"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher."
- John Petit-Senn
(Related: Courage, Wind)
"The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle."
- John L. Phillips
(Related: Space, Will, Windows)
"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Wind)
"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
- Kenneth L. Pike
(Related: Eyes)
"The detached observer's view is one window on the world."
- Kenneth L. Pike
(Related: World)
"Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed."
- Brad Pitt
(Related: Bed, Being, Wind)
"At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there."
- Donald Pleasence
(Related: End, First, Lying)
"Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Wind)
"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Leading)
"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: God, Clouds, Mind, Poor, Wind)
"Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view."
- Cecil Frank Powell
(Related: Science, Nature)
"Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental."
- Dick Powell
(Related: Being, Environment, Feeling, Safety, Wind)
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
- Anthony Quinn
(Related: Country, Wind)
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
- Roger de Rabutin
(Related: Love, Absence, Fire, Wind)
"When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off."
- Sally Rand
(Related: Fans, First, Wind)
"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."
- Tony Randall
(Related: Play, Wind)
"We don't windsurf in Harlem."
- Charles Rangel
"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window."
- Burton Rascoe
(Related: Wife, Writer)
"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards."
- Joseph Ratzinger
(Related: Faith, Attitude, Church, Teaching, Today, Wind)
"The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Artist, Wind)
"To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."
- Anne Rice
(Related: May, Open, Question)
"Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend."
- Grantland Rice
(Related: Friend, Day, Journey, Night, Road, Will, Wind)
"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
(Related: People, Energy, Today, Wind)
"But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Earth)
"I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you."
- Cathy Rigby
(Related: Kids, Open, Talk, Will)
"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Dance)
"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants."
- Geraldo Rivera
(Related: Job, Winter)
"The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: First, Wind)
"One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up."
- Mark Roberts
(Related: Music, Singing, Sound, Wind)
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Absence, Fans, Wind)
"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Society, God, Struggle)
"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."
- Jim Rohn
(Related: Direction, Will, Wind)
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."
- Jim Rohn
(Related: Change, Circumstances, Responsibility, Seasons, Wind)
"But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Time, Technology, War, Fun, Glamour)
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
- Dave Van Ronk
(Related: Country, Right, Song)
"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."
- Christina Rossetti
(Related: Dying)
"Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by."
- Christina Rossetti
(Related: Trees, Wind)
"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."
- Bruno Rossi
(Related: Progress, World)
"Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually."
- Guido van Rossum
(Related: Windows)
"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
- David Lee Roth
(Related: First, Television, Wind)
"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Life, Fire, Man, Order, Right, Risk, Suicide)
"And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Life, Time, Mother, Acting, Career, Wind)
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Rain, Snow, Weather, Wind)
"That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think."
- Walter Salles
(Related: Fiction, Open, Windows)
"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Destiny, Night, Wind, Worry)
"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Time, Arithmetic, Right, Sky, Wrong)
"He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman."
- Jacopo Sannazaro
(Related: Heart, Wind, Woman)
"I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era."
- Fred Savage
(Related: Love, Movies)
"Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Weather, Windows)
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Power, Motive, Obstacles, Wind)
"This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show."
- Jon Secada
(Related: Love, Earth, Fire, Wind)
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Man, Right, Wind)
"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Life, Earth, Eternity, Fire, Light, Rain, Sky, Sun, Wind)
"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Man, Right, Wind)
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Wind)
"Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently."
- Michael Servetus
(Related: Clouds, Miracles, Rain)
"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
- Merle Shain
(Related: Friends, Windows, World)
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Will, Wit)
"Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die."
- Karl Shapiro
(Related: Heart, Eyes, Grief, Laughter, Man, Tears, Wind)
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: World)
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Marriage, Alliance, Man, Open, Sleep, Woman)
"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
- Irwin Shaw
(Related: Nothing)
"I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons."
- Tommy Shaw
(Related: Wind)
"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Nature)
"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Spring, Wind, Winter)
"And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window."
- Archie Shepp
"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."
- Brooke Shields
(Related: Being, Waste)
"As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it."
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Education, College, Depression, Parents, Wind)
"The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Democracy, May, Ocean, Road, Will)
"I kind of dwindled into acting."
- Ron Silver
(Related: Acting)
"These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."
- Clifford D. Simak
(Related: Dogs, Wind)
"Who am I to blow against the wind?"
- Paul Simon
(Related: Wind)
"He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president."
- Alan K. Simpson
(Related: President, Windows)
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
- Gordon Sinclair
(Related: Americans, Danger, Paris, Reward)
"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."
- Gordon Sinclair
(Related: Americans, Right, Talk)
"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want."
- Marsha Sinetar
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Goals, Values, Obstacles, Want, Windows)
"On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves."
- Joshua Slocum
(Related: Day, Sea, Wind)
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."
- Ashley Smith
(Related: Dreams, Life, Beauty, Faces, Fight, Potential, Rain, Wind)
"Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window."
- Delia Smith
(Related: Work, Hard work, Memories)
"We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children."
- Gordon Smith
(Related: Opportunity, Children, Retirement, Security, Years)
"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Life, Thought, People, Public, Self)
"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."
- Theodore C. Sorensen
(Related: Attention, Destruction, Earth, Global warming, Now, Wind)
"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."
- John Philip Sousa
(Related: Music, Balance, Obvious, Wind)
"Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure."
- Robert Southwell
(Related: Man, Pleasure, Wind)
"When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course."
- Stephen Spender
(Related: Dreams, Son, Mind, Rhetoric, Wishes)
"Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass."
- John Steinbeck
(Related: Change, Men, Dawn, Wind)
"A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find."
- James Stephens
(Related: Man, Singing, Wind, Woman)
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
- Laurence Sterne
(Related: God, Wind)
"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Love, Body)
"I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Work, Energy, Want, Wind)
"Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky."
- Bram Stoker
(Related: Act, Fact, Horses, Light, Sky, Windows)
"Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual."
- William Graham Sumner
(Related: Men, Financial, Connection, Fraud, Greed, Selfishness)
"Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed."
- Lynn Swann
(Related: Sports, Opportunity, African, Americans, Entertainment, Windows)
"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Mother)
"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."
- Jonathan Swift
(Related: Man, Rules, Weather, Woman)
"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."
- Jonathan Swift
(Related: Learning, Nothing, Wind, Words)
"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Related: Life, Love, Men, Fear, Gods, Hope, Living, May, Sea, Thanksgiving)
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Life)
"When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Vision, Ability, Majority, Mind)
"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Compromise, Misfortune, Wind)
"When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Attitude, Vision)
"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Life, Words)
"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Life, Heart, Friends, Fun, Joy, Today)
"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Change, People, Attitude, Act, Fact, Past, Play)
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
- Charles R. Swindoll
"The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Life, Thoughts, Excellence, Information, Living, Programming, Thinking, Will)
"The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Attention, Detail, Difference)
"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Family, Living, Principles)
"A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Earth, Heaven)
"Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched."
- Charles R. Swindoll
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Education, Money, People, Attitude, Appearance, Circumstances, Past, Skill)
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Banks, Children, Day, Memory)
"The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day."
- Charles R. Swindoll
(Related: Attitude, Choice, Day, Remarkable, Will)
"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."
- John Millington Synge
(Related: Time, Knowledge, Direction, Wind)
"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas."
- John Millington Synge
(Related: People, Consciousness, Isolation, Pain, Universe)
"You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts."
- Julie Taymor
(Related: Time, School, Study)
"Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones."
- Frederick Tennyson
"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
(Related: Evil, Light)
"Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction."
- Lowell Thomas
(Related: Purpose, Direction, Water, Wind)
"Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Experience, Work, Opportunity, Job, Windows, World)
"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Life, Tides)
"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free.""
- Linus Torvalds
(Related: People, Windows)
"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there."
- Linus Torvalds
(Related: Windows)
"I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different."
- Linus Torvalds
(Related: Goals, Competition, Linux, Windows)
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
- Lionel Trilling
(Related: Being, Walking, Wind)
"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."
- Shania Twain
(Related: Life, Wind)
"Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy."
- Liv Tyler
(Related: God, Sun)
"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows."
- Lao Tzu
(Related: Heaven, World)
"Throw caution to the wind and just do it."
- Carrie Underwood
(Related: Caution, Wind)
"They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day."
- Johnny Vegas
(Related: Day, Living, London, Windows)
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Favors, Service, Windows)
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Running, Service, Windows)
"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice."
- Tim Vine
(Related: Driving, Today)
"The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Sound, Wind)
"The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better."
- Ginny B. Waite
(Related: Safety, Wind)
"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Caring, Light, Sharing, Smile)
"Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Power, Development, America, Energy, Jobs, Wind)
"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
- Edmund Waller
(Related: Quiet)
"Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!"
- Burt Ward
(Related: Women, Night, Windows)
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
(Related: Change, Wind)
"I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real."
- Barry Watson
(Related: Day, Man)
"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."
- Gerard Way
(Related: People, Act, Television)
"If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself."
- Mike Weir
(Related: Money, Thought, Winning, Hurt, Wind)
"I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'."
- Devon Werkheiser
(Related: Spirit, Will, Wind)
"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."
- Mary Wesley
(Related: People, Nothing, Old)
"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
- Morris West
(Related: Birds, Cosmos, Creation, Trees)
"I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop."
- Paul Westerberg
(Related: Time, May, Will)
"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
- Edith Wharton
(Related: Imagination, Destiny, Man, Moments)
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman
(Related: Books, Metaphysics)
"All the windows of my heart I open to the day."
- John Greenleaf Whittier
(Related: Heart, Day, Open, Windows)
"I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in."
- Michelle Wie
(Related: Rain, Wind)
"Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window."
- Dianne Wiest
(Related: Opinion)
"So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Art, Gods, Being, Needs, Wind, World)
"Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Soul, Glory, May, Windows, World)
"One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
- Billy Wilder
(Related: Actor, Nothing)
"Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting."
- Billy Wilder
(Related: Man, Nothing, Now)
"So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Related: Oak, Play, Trees, Windows)
"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."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Related: Work, People, Pretty, Weather, Wind)
"I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there."
- William Wiley
(Related: Thoughts, Painting)
"I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it."
- Serena Williams
(Related: Time, May)
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
- Tennessee Williams
(Related: Fire)
"Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?"
- Wendy O. Williams
(Related: Feet)
"I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below."
- Angus Wilson
(Related: May, Moments, Office)
"Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No."
- Harold Wilson
(Related: Acceptance, Will, Wind)
"Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country."
- William Windham
(Related: Country)
"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Past)
"The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Nature, Being, First, Job, Years)
"My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Life, America)
"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Artist)
"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Passion, Writing)
"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"
- Terri Windling
(Related: Work, Technology, Editors, EnglFantasy, Writers)
"There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Vision, Editors)
"There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Hope, Consciousness, Fantasy, Literature, Media, Myth, Public)
"In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest."
- Terri Windling
(Related: American, Land, Now, Years)
"We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Age, Experience, Now)
"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."
- Terri Windling
(Related: American, Literature, Magic, Popularity, Realism)
"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Science, Business, Fantasy, Fiction)
"When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Love, Music, College, England, Ireland)
"There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Old, Shakespeare, World)
"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Respect)
"One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Fantasy, Old, Right, World)
"I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years."
- Terri Windling
(Related: England, Living, Years)
"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Film, Word)
"I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Time, England, Months)
"A good novel editor is invisible."
- Terri Windling
"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Music, American, Folk)
"I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills."
- Terri Windling
"I was a great fan of Jim Henson."
- Terri Windling
"I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Heart, Interest)
"I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it."
- Terri Windling
(Related: People, Reading, Trying, Writers)
"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
- Terri Windling
"I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Artist)
"I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore."
- Terri Windling
"Filmmaking can be a fine art."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Art)
"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Fight)
"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Walking)
"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Actors)
"My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this."
- Marie Windsor
"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Acting, Years)
"Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Time)
"So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Work, Acting, Being, Hard work)
"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Chaos, Order)
"The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes."
- Marie Windsor
"The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Animals, Day)
"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Being)
"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Being, Example)
"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Son, Living)
"In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it."
- Marie Windsor
"I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!"
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Thought, Film)
"I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Life, Mind, Stars)
"But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Work, People, Life, Being, Lonely, Painting)
"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Devil)
"For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Dogs)
"I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Road, Saying)
"I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Man, Quiet, Years)
"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Dance, Ballet)
"I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful."
- Marie Windsor
"I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Thought)
"About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Time)
"I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Trying, Years)
"I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Killing)
"For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Problems, Years)
"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."
- Bill Withers
(Related: World)
"I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader."
- Reese Witherspoon
(Related: Kids, Kitchen, Play)
"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
(Related: Funny, Music, Flying, Play, Trying, Wind)
"Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good."
- Herman Wouk
(Related: War)
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Trust, Computer)
"With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe."
- Orville Wright
(Related: Knowledge, First, Machine, Skill, Today, Wind, Years)
"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window."
- Steven Wright
(Related: Car, Play)
"The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations."
- John Wycliffe
(Related: Life, Enemy, Temptations)
"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."
- Andrew Wyeth
(Related: Emotion, First, Flying, Joy)
"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Dance, Fairies, Mountains, Wind, World)
"There was no wind in all that sweep of sky."
- Frank Yerby
(Related: Sky, Wind)
"When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was."
- Dick York
(Related: School, Teaching, Wind)
"I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot."
- Jamie Zawinski
(Related: Linux, Today, Unix, Windows)
"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."
- Barry Zito
(Related: Day, Wind)