An Ill Wind Quotes

#1. THOMAS TUSSER. 1523-1580. Moral Reflections on the Wind. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. {95}

Various

#2. I'm not fooled any more by an ill wind and a light that fails.

E.B. White

#3. 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

#4. Kevin Reeves ... proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

David Coleman

#5. An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.

Bennett Cerf

#6. what wind blows you here? nit an ill wind, I hope

Charles Dickens

#7. Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good.

Thomas Tusser

#8. It's an ill wind that blows no good.

John Heywood

#9. Tis an ill wind that blows no minds

Gregory Hill

#10. I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.

Thom Yorke

#11. The oboe's a horn made of wood.
I'd play you a tune if I could,
But the reeds are a pain,
And the fingering's insane.
It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

Ogden Nash

#12. There's nothing giggly about Heather usually. She's the opposite; hanging out with her is like sitting in an empty church. That's why I like her. She's quiet and serious and a thousand years old and seems like she can talk to the wind.

Jandy Nelson

#13. The weather isn't what you think it is. Not by a long shot.
Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin in Ill Wind

Rachel Caine

#14. Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.

Bruno Maag

#15. Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

George Washington

#16. And those fingers just keep on wagging until some gay teenager hangs himself because he can't fight the fucking tornado of hatred whirling around his head, and that ill wind keeps blowing, until over in Kenya, some man lifts a knife and cuts out a young girl's clitoris? It's all connected, Dale.

Eden Connor

#17. I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

Jonathan Dimbleby