To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.