Gusts Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk… — William Shakespeare
The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders. — James Franco
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a… — Alexander Cockburn
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A A Milne
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning… — Aesop
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… — Charles Dickens
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and… — George Eliot
We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts.… — Kathryn Lasky
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as… — Maggie O'Farrell
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.… — Ilona Andrews
The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust.… — Willa Cather
Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line… — Nancy Gibbs
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems… — Czeslaw Milosz
Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things… — John Owen
The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross winds or stormy… — Robert Boyle

Who Wrote These Gusts Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 18 Gusts Quotes as follows: