Windy Day Quotes:

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Mariners, Navigate

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Positive Change, Inspirational Attitude

They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day.

- Lauren DeStefano

source: FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jul 12, 2013

topic: Mean, Sky, Tree, Windy Day, Windy

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

- Stephen Spender

topic: Dream, Horse, Children, Lashes, Windy Day

When I first started wearing wigs, I didn't know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that's not the most embarrassing thing... but you have to use bobby pins.

- Sherri Shepherd

topic: Anchors, Wigs, Use, Windy Day

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

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

topic: Kissing, Clouds, Light, Jenny, Adieu

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

- Stephen King

topic: Clothes, Lines, Sometimes, Windy Day

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

topic: Dad, Thinking, Kyoto, Windy Day, Your Dad