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Quotes About Windy

To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.
~ Washington Irving
the blustery talk of civic leaders—and not Chicago's weather—had inspired the "Windy City" moniker.
~ Karen Abbott
If it was too windy sixty feet up, Bowie couldn't perform the song for fear of toppling off his mounting and becoming a rock'n'roll casualty. For the 1987 tour, as if in a fit
~ David Buckley
Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
What I wanted was that walk: slate and windy, the sky overcast but not threatening rain. I
~ Kathleen Rooney
It keeps on the windy side of care.
~ William Shakespeare
Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow,Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.
~ William Shakespeare
But I prefer the windy days, the days that strip me back, blasted, tossed, who knows where, imagine them, purple-red, silver-pink, natural confetti, thin, fragile, easily crushed and blackened, fading already wherever the air's taken them across the city, the car parks, the streets, the ragged grass verges, dog-ear and adrift on the surfaces of the puddles, flat to the gutter stones, mixing with the litter, their shards of colour circling in the leafy-grimy corners of yards.
~ Ali Smith
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
after over a century of such noise, the windy silence of the outdoors was strange, a kind of aural hollowness.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
A los mortales no les gusta la incertidumbre. No les gusta el cambio. El cambio da miedo. El cambio es doloroso. -El cambio es un beso en la oscuridad. Una rosa en la nieve. Un camino del bosque en una noche ventosa.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
El cambio es un beso en la oscuridad. Una rosa en la nieve. Un camino del bosque en una noche ventosa.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I just want a sunny, lazy, windy time with the people I like best.
~ Enid Blyton
Why?" Kieran grinned. "'Cause you can't dance, it's too wet to plow, and it's a little windy to be stacking chickens.
~ Jesse Hajicek
It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago "the Windy City.
~ Erik Larson
Just take that beautiful body down below, will you?" Wilson said. "I'm sure you'll get the lady to sleep." "You swine," the man said. "You rotten swine." "Can't you think up any other names?" Frank said. "Swine's getting awfully dull. You better go down below before you catch cold. If I had a wonderful chest like that I wouldn't risk it out here on a windy night like this.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We call this building the Architects' Revenge. The balconies are designed to be too sunny, too windy, and too dirty. The cinders that hurtle through my living room are capable of putting out an eyeball. But it's a good address. Some of the best people live in this building, several of them blind in one eye.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Occasionally, on windy days Hervé Joncour would go down to the lake and spend hours in contemplation of it because he seemed to descry, sketched out on the water, the inexplicable sight of his life as it had been, in all its lightness.
~ Alessandro Baricco
I'm proud to say I had a bet with a guy from Chicago who said Chicago is windier and colder than Wyoming. Wyoming dominated them.
~ Mike Leach
You know you're a skydiver when you analyze every flag you see in terms of it's too windy/not too windy to jump.
~ Anonymous
My hair is normally really unkempt - I'll just use my sunglasses like a headband or throw on a felt cloche by Behida Dolic in windy weather.
~ Morena Baccarin
I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.
~ Louis Oosthuizen
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
El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.
~ Tommy Caldwell