Wind Quotes

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard

Spiritual, Energy, Sunlight

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
Haile Gebrselassie

Time, Remember, Perfect

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack Kemp

Winning, Looking, Bum

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

Work, Best, Energy

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.
Andrew Cuomo

Nothing, Try, Sometimes

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Yoshida Kenko

Heart, Nothing, Touch

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

Work, Words, Put

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
Jeffrey Kluger

Best, Children, Parents

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
Shimon Peres

Change, Peace, Nature

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
Florence Welch

Love, Rain, Become

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.
Thomas Friedman

Power, Business, Rock

If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Mother, Single, Person

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.
Ricki Lake

Money, Dollars, Bowling

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.
Patti Stanger

Young, Married, Growing

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

Rain, Together, Before

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
Donny Osmond

Music, Today, Fire

Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.
Tom Vilsack

Today, Smart, Energy

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

Reality, Book, Sometimes

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

Question, Fair, Knew

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

Sea, Breeze, Lightest

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith

Future, Feeling, Serious

In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
Jeff Goodell

Power, War, Long

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

Truth, Down, Rather

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
John Petit-Senn

Courage, True, Higher

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

Become, Show, Until

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

Good, Women, Men

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
David Letterman

Hell, Off, President

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Roger de Rabutin

Love, Great, Fire

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

Knowledge, Today, Strange

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
Bethenny Frankel

Hard, Down, Beat

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Wind Definition

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us