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Wind velocity increases in direct proportion to how well...

Wind velocity increases in direct proportion to how well your hat fits.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about press, thinking, idea, public, things, good, good luck, people

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon...

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Quote by Aesop about courage, force, police

The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about angels, moon, celebrity, sun

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Quote by Winston Churchill

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot...

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Quote by Charles Dickens about sun, day, light

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like...

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Quote by Glenn Close

A ship is said to be on the starboard or larboard tack, when she is close-hauled, with the wind upon the starboard or larboard side; and in this sense the distance which the sails in that position is considered as the length of the tack; although...

Quote by William Falconer about common sense, sense

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious...

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

Quote by William Falconer

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

The absolute is the wind blowing; it's just the fact that...

The absolute is the wind blowing; it's just the fact that there was a storm that day.

Quote by Richard Gere about absolute, day

There is kind of this cosmic reality of the wind, ...

There is kind of this cosmic reality of the wind, whatever that is. Karma, in a larger sense.

Quote by Richard Gere about reality, common sense, sense

When everything seems to be going against you, remember...

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Quote by Henry Ford about contentment

The cost of the hair do is directly related to the...

The cost of the hair do is directly related to the strength of the wind.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about humor

The wind will always blow opposite to your hairdo.

The wind will always blow opposite to your hairdo.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Tear gas works on cops too, and regardless of wind...

Tear gas works on cops too, and regardless of wind direction, will always blow back in your face.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, face

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Quote by Dolly Parton

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, ...

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Quote by Edward Fitzgerald about poetry, water

We should be like the mountains... they talk with the heights... they watch after the depths... they fight with the wind... they melt under the sun... they kiss with the moon... they collect the tears from the clouds... and never complain...

YQuote by Yasar Memedemin about dream, kiss, moon, tears, sun, fight

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