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• In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

  Tim Cahill

  Animal, Wind, Annoyed

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• So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

  John Milton

  Sea, Land, Prey

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 440

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• My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.

  Art Alexakis

  California, Mama, Bears

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Darkness, Forests

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Cake, Comfort, Caviar

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

  John Betjeman

  Loneliness, Lying, Clouds

  John Betjeman, “Business Girls”

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• I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

  Morena Baccarin

  Song, Cheesy, Road Trip

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.

  Anne Waldman

  Ego, Shapes, Stuff

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Cheer, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Since I think agriculture will come back closer to the center of life, I think there will be many vocational opportunities there - especially with the so-called 'value-added' activities associated with food production. That's a windy way to say more local wine and cheese-makers - and probably fewer giant factories producing cheez doodles and Pepsi Cola.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Wine, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Facts, Walks, Relish

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• Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.

  Ally Carter

  Dad, Thinking, Kyoto

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiration, Men, Arrogance

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• I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

  Stephen King

  Clothes, Lines, Sometimes

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• the windy sky
  
  Cries out a literate despair.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sky, Despair, Cry

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Knopf

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• I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light, White, Water

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.288, Anchor

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• The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

  Alan Watts

  Business, Philosophy, Positive Thinking

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• In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Rain, Wind, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.9, TAN Books

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• It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

  Daniel Handler

  Mountain, Valleys, World

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• This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Vegetables, Roots

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• A weathered skeleton
  in windy fields of memory,
  piercing like a knife.

  Matsuo Basho

  Memories, Skeletons, Knives

  Matsuo Basho, “A Weathered Skeleton”

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• I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

  James Branch Cabell

  Lying, Planets, Persons

  James Branch Cabell (2009). “The Silver Stallion”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

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• An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Land, Energy

  Denis Hayes (2000). “The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair”, p.40, Island Press

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• Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

  Laurence Sterne

  Kissing, Clouds, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257

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