Breeze Quotes - Page 18

• Loud is the summer's busy song
  The smallest breeze can find a tongue,
  While insects of each tiny size
  Grow teasing with their melodies,
  Till noon burns with its blistering breath
  Around, and day lies still as death.

  John Clare

  Summer, Song, Lying

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• The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Kissing, Purple

  Walter Scott, J. W. Lake (1827). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume”, p.151

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• Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Love Is, Doors

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• The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.

  Ernie Lyons

  Spring, Rivers, Clouds

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• I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's like you're on the front end of a boat and you're going through the water, and the breeze is blowing through your hair and the water's smooth, and you're going out to sea. I love that feeling.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Writing, Hair, Sea

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• I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Writing, Simple

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• What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great deal of pleasure from watching the sun rise and set, admiring clouds as they change shape across the sky, watching tree leaves and blossoms undulate in the breeze....these treats foment an ocular-cleansing refreshment to my way of thinking.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Clouds, Sky

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 4, 2014.

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• The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Sky, June

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Strange Lady”

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• We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Arbitrary, Wander

  "A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

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• No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

  William Mathews

  Life, Ocean, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.3, Belford Bros.

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• Father, thy hand
  Hath reared these venerable columns, thou
  Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down
  Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose
  All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun,
  Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze,
  And shot towards heaven.

  William C. Bryant

  Father, Hands, Rose

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

  Frank Loesser

  Morning, Stairs, Fine

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Rain, Kissing, Oxygen

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• You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

  David Gemmell

  Sweet, Laughter, Children

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 18, 1984.

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• A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Brother, Writing, Light

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.

  George Arnold

  Summer, Sleep, Dark

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.81

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• A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.

  Moss Hart

  Reality, Play, Study

  1959 Act One.

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• Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the state of no-mindedness. It doesn't mean unconsciousness. It means conscious and still, without any disturbance in the consciousness; conscious with no ripples, with no waves, with no vibrations; conscious as a deep, calm, silent pool with no ripples on it, with no disturbances on the surface; just a calm silent pool with no breeze to disturb, just mirrorlike.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Meditation, Mind

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• When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

  Mary Howitt

  Autumn, White, Joy

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• In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

  Benjamin Rush

  Leaving, Religion, Foundation

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters: 1793-1813”

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• He stood beside a cottage lone
  And listened to a lute,
  One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
  And the nightingale was mute.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Summer, Gone, Cottages

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1830). “The Devil's progress, a poem, by the editor of the 'Court journal'.”, p.50

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• If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Gay, Balance, Would Be

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• Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Ideas, Light

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• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

  Maya Angelou

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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