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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.
Author:
Barry Zito
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When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
Author:
Dick York
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There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.
Author:
Frank Yerby
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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!
Author:
William Yeats
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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.
Author:
Orville Wright
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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.
Author:
Roy Wood
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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.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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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.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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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.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.
Author:
Devon Werkheiser
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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.
Author:
Mike Weir
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Author:
William Ward
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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.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
Author:
Don Vliet
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Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Author:
Lowell Thomas
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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
Author:
John Synge
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Author:
Charles Swindoll
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
Author:
James Stephens
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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.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
Author:
Robert Southwell
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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.
Author:
John Sousa
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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.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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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.
Author:
Joshua Slocum
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
Author:
Paul Simon
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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
Author:
Clifford Simak
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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.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Author:
Percy Shelley
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I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.
Author:
Tommy Shaw
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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.
Author:
Karl Shapiro
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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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.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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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.
Author:
Jon Secada
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Author:
Walter Scott
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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.
Author:
Jacopo Sannazaro
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Author:
John Ruskin
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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.
Author:
David Roth
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
Author:
Christina Rossetti
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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.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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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.
Author:
Mark Roberts
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The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.
Author:
Mickey Rivers
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I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today.
Author:
Bill Richardson
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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Author:
Herbert Read
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Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.
Author:
Tony Randall
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Author:
Sally Rand
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Author:
Roger Rabutin
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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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.
Author:
Dick Powell
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
Author:
Brad Pitt
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Author:
John Petit-Senn
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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.
Author:
Rick Perry
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Author:
Dolly Parton
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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.
Author:
Bill Owens
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Author:
George Orwell
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
Author:
Jack Nicklaus
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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.
Author:
Grace Napolitano
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Thus far we run before the wind.
Author:
Arthur Murphy
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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.
Author:
Haruki Murakami
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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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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!
Author:
John Muir
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.
Author:
Stephanie Mills
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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.
Author:
Larry Miller
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I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.
Author:
Matthew McGrory
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My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
Author:
John McGraw
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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.
Author:
Hattie McDaniel
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It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
Author:
John Masefield
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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?
Author:
Ralph Marston
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After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.
Author:
Method Man
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What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
Author:
Thomas Malory
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We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
Author:
George Mallory
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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.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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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.
Author:
John MacDonald
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You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
Author:
Kelly Lynch
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
Author:
John Lyly
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Author:
James Lowell
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Author:
Federico Lorca
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Author:
Titus Livius
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President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
Author:
David Letterman
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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.
Author:
Charles Leland
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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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.
Author:
Matt LeBlanc
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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.
Author:
Jerome Lawrence
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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.
Author:
Jerome Lawrence
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Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Author:
Ann Landers
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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.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
Author:
Evel Knievel
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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.
Author:
Eartha Kitt
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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.
Author:
Tom Kite
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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.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Author:
Yoshida Kenko
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Author:
Jack Kemp
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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.
Author:
Ashley Judd
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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.
Author:
Marion Jones
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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.
Author:
Tim Johnson
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Author:
William James
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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!
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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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.
Author:
Burl Ives
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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.
Author:
Amy Irving
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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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.
Author:
John Huston
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
Author:
Thomas Hood
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Author:
Homer
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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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.
Author:
Marjorie Holmes
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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
Author:
Tony Hillerman
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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Author:
Carl Hiaasen
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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.
Author:
Thor Heyerdahl
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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.
Author:
Antony Hewish
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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.
Author:
James Herriot
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It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
Author:
Matthew Henson
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
Author:
O. Henry
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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.
Author:
Don Henley
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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.
Author:
Hermann Helmholtz
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Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Author:
Frank Harris
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They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
Author:
Arthur Harris
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The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Author:
Lawrence Hargrave
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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.
Author:
Lawrence Hargrave
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
Author:
David Hare
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Author:
Catherine Great
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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.
Author:
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
Author:
William Golding
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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.
Author:
Arthur Golden
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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.
Author:
John Glover
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Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.
Author:
Ian Gilmour
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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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.
Author:
Alexi Giannoulias
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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.
Author:
Geronimo
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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.
Author:
Jean Genet
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Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
Author:
Fred Frith
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As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
Author:
David Friedman
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Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
Author:
Janet Frame
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
Author:
E. Forster
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Author:
Henry Ford
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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.
Author:
Glenn Ford
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Wisdom sails with wind and time.
Author:
John Florio
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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.
Author:
Robert Fitzgerald
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I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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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.
Author:
Carlton Fisk
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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.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Author:
Rachel Field
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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.
Author:
Douglas Feith
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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.
Author:
Diane Feinstein
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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
Author:
William Falconer
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The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.
Author:
Ron Fairly
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When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
Author:
Chris Evert
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Author:
Euripides
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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.
Author:
Michael Ende
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They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.
Author:
Tracey Emin
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The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Author:
Jim Elliot
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Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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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.
Author:
Anne Edwards
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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.
Author:
Charles Eastman
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Author:
Annie Dillard
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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.
Author:
Ani DiFranco
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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.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Author:
Jimmy Dean
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All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
Author:
Dizzy Dean
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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
Author:
Edwidge Danticat
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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.
Author:
Charles Dance
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'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.
Author:
Timothy Dalton
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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.
Author:
e. cummings
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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.
Author:
George Crumb
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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.
Author:
Harry Crosby
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I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
Author:
Joe Cronin
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
Author:
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Author:
Barry Cornwall
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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.
Author:
Billy Connolly
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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.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
Author:
Jacqueline Cochran
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I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
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Glenn Close
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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.
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Grover Cleveland
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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.
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Brian Cleary
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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.
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Adam Clarke
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
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Winston Churchill
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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?
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Kate Chopin
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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Chanakya
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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!
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Helena Carter
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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.
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Eric Carle
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Abraham Cahan
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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.
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John Byng
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Samuel Butler
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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Leo Buscaglia
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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.
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Michael Burgess
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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Anne Bronte
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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.
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Anne Bronte
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Popular applause veers with the wind.
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John Bright
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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
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Johannes Brahms
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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.
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Billy Bragg
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
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Maxwell Bodenheim
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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.
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Hugo Black
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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.
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Henry Beston
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Yogi Berra
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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.
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Pope Benedict XVI
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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.
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Michael Behe
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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.
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Alison Bechdel
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And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
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Roy Bean
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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.
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Roger Bannister
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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.
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Milton Avery
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I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
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William Ashley
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I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
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Evelyn Ashford
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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Daisy Ashford
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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.
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Arthur Ashe
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Matthew Arnold
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A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
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Thomas Appleton
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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Dante Alighieri
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Eden Ahbez
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
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Aesop
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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.
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Floyd Abrams
