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. Tis an ill wind that blows no minds

Gregory Hill

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

E.B. White

#4. 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

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

David Coleman

#6. 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

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

Bennett Cerf

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

Rachel Caine

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

Charles Dickens

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

Thomas Tusser

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

John Heywood

#12. 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

#13. Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Jane Asher

#14. I think I am still underpaid. I want to make as much money as my male counterparts.

Kangana Ranaut

#15. 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

#16. You're like two fucking catfish, sitting at the bottom of the lake, doing fish shit and stuff.

Max Monroe

#17. I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

Bill Gates

#18. Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them.

Mark Twain

#19. Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

Ralph Marston

#20. Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn't.

Paul Gillin

#21. Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

James Hansen

#22. The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

Bruce Schneier

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

#26. Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.
I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.

CLAMP

#27. I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

Ellen Klages

#28. 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

#29. When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.

Emo Philips

#30. 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

#31. Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?"
"Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

Garth Nix

#32. You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.

Jeff Foxworthy