Windblown Quotes

#1. For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

Anonymous

#2. What geomancy reads what the windblown sand writes on the desert rock? I read there that all things live by a generous power and dance to a mighty tune; or I read there all things are scattered and hurled, that our every arabesque and grand jete is a frantic variation on our one free fall.

Annie Dillard

#3. But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.

David Suzuki

#4. How many people came and stayed a certain time,
Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you
Like light behind windblown fog and sand
Filtered and influenced by it, until no part
Remains that is surely you.

John Ashbery

#5. He was a crusty old bastard, dressed like my uncle in ancient denim coveralls, espadrilles and beret. He had a leathery, tanned and windblown face, hollow cheeks, and the tiny broken blood vessels on nose and cheeks that everyone seemed to have from drinking so much of the local Bordeaux.

Anthony Bourdain

#6. The life of this world is wind
Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.
All that we look on is windfall.
All we remember is wind.

Charles Wright

#7. What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called snirt.

Ivan Doig

#8. Mick was always the right kind of dirty. Windblown, fresh off his bike, wrapped in tattoo and leather. Muscles all the hell over the place. The man was a serious piece of eye candy. Thinking about him losing the leather warmed the chill that had gripped her since the attack.

Cindy Skaggs

#9. But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.

Carsten Jensen

#10. The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

Henry James

#11. Things were launching themselves from the ornate sunburst spires, glittering leech shapes made of shifting planes of light. There were hundreds of them, rising in a whirl, their movements random as windblown paper down dawn streets. "Glitch systems," the voice said.

William Gibson

#12. The true poem rests between the words.

Vanna Bonta

#13. You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

Rush Limbaugh

#14. Wonder , or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#15. You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

Dr. Seuss

#16. Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Leo Ornstein

#17. Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

Julian Assange

#18. If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness ... we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Clement Of Alexandria

#19. With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form.

David Henry Hwang

#20. Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

Diana Ross

#21. Although I don't know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

Alexander Hanson

#22. This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

Conan O'Brien

#23. She was starting to get a little breathless from trailing Casper, though the guys weren't having any trouble. "How far have we gone? Like three miles?"
Gabriel gave her a look. "Like one."
So she needed more cardio.

Brigid Kemmerer

#24. When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.

Pierre Dukan

#25. In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.

Kevin Spacey