There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
Within the renewables space, we are focused on solar and wind energy.
You cannot have one bathroom. And it don’t matter how much you love your wife and everything, ’cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you’ve got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
It’s hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn’t sound like communism to me.
One of my favorites is ‘The Sound of Music’. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
I don’t talk about who I’m dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America’s political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.
But in the back of my mind I always thought, Someday, if the Heartbreakers wind down, Ill focus on the Dirty Knobs.
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
I became a novelist because of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a ‘Southern’ novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word ‘Southern’ because ‘Gone With the Wind’ set my mother’s imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
In socialism, everything is supposed to be equal. And yet, it’s always fascinating how the elite government bureaucrats (in socialist places like Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina) are the ones that wind up with all the money.
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists – the kids can’t come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.
She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us ‘Gone With the Wind’ very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, ‘Oh, maybe one day I’ll be like Vivien Leigh.’
Very happily, I am very fortunate to be able to be where the wind takes me, where the work takes me, and where I want to be.
I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I’ll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn’t mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.
Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.
The video for ‘Ride the Wind,’ we shot that in Detroit. We shot it at Joe Louis Arena two nights in a row.
When you’re in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
I’ve been crazy lucky that I’ve never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
It’s interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It’s giving that person a lot of power.
When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
You beat China by outcompeting them, by dominating the new technologies: wind, solar, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing. We should be reinvesting back in the United States and beating them on the economic playing field.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it’s through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
With every year that passes, the easier I cry. The wind blows and I find myself moved by something.
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth but there are reasons to believe the opposite will be the case.
I felt that after 14 years we deserved more than just a day and a half’s notice. There wasn’t even a chance to wind up ‘Bonanza’ in a blaze of glory.
When you do a record like ‘Talk,’ and you’re happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn’t sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.
Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent – and yet that’s precisely what adding large amounts of solar and wind to the grid requires.
It’ll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching ‘Breaking Bad.’
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
I love ‘A Mighty Wind.’ Even though it’s not a funny movie, I think that’s kind of beautiful and sweet.
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn’t really anything. It’s a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
Prince, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament all had albums that sound different. I wanted to show, as a hip-hop producer, I’m one of those that can do anything, because I was raised on so much music aside from rap and hip-hop.
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
I feel like if you’re a girl in the South, you know ‘Gone with the Wind’ better than anything. Scarlett O’Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like ‘Gone With the Wind.’ And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there’s something so absolutely romantic about it.
I believed then – in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult – that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
I would love to interview Michael McKean and his wife, who wrote the songs for ‘A Mighty Wind,’ which is my favorite Christopher Guest movie. I’m just a sucker for any funny guy that has a wife who is intelligent and that he collaborates with.
Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
