Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

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

Popular applause veers with the wind.
John Bright

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

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Lowell Thomas

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding

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

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
Fred Frith

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

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

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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