It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
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.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
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.
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.
I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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.
Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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.
It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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.
I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.
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.
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
