#wind

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#african americans #always #been #closed #doors

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#could #ever #i #look #mother

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#learning #nothing #wind #words

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#devastating #lot #misfortune #more #sudden

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#depends #direction #enough #general #general knowledge

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#opinion #out #unique #unless #window

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#did #elected #era #grades #i

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. ↗

— Henry Beston

#elemental #great #nature #ocean #outer

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#curls #finger #heart #his #into

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#clicks #curl #detached #doll #event