Weather Vane Quotes

#1. You who travel with the wind, what weather vane shall direct your course?

Kahlil Gibran

#2. A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

Walter Pater

#3. Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

Douglas Brinkley

#4. I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Franklin P. Adams

#5. All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

John Steinbeck

#6. Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

Gertrude Berg

#7. If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

Jessye Norman

#8. All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

Robin Sharma

#9. My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

John Keats

#10. I have a black-belt in self-pity. I was an expert in the field. Still am. It's a skill you never forget.

Katja Millay

#11. Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements
and this is untrue.

Richard Rhodes

#12. Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.

Robert Moffat

#13. I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

Rohan Bopanna

#14. I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

Baltasar Kormakur

#15. One fine day I'll reach the conclusion that that's what life is like: There's no point worrying bout it; nothing will change. And I'll accept it.

Paulo Coelho

#16. This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Mitch Albom

#17. I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

George Gordon Byron

#18. Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Eric Hoffer

#19. She pushed Adam firmly back, once and for all, and turned to face the demon, the crescent moon of the scythe's blade circling over her head as a vane signals a change in the weather.
The wind was finally blowing her way.

Erin Kellison

#20. I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

Matthew Woodring Stover