Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

- Alan Ball

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

- Alice Oswald

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

- Alec Baldwin

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

- Albert Pujols

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

- Adam Clarke

J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.

- Ashwin Sanghi

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.

- Arthur Golden

I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.

- Anna Kendrick

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

- Amy Heckerling

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

- Allen West

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

- A. A. Milne

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

- Arthur Ashe

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

- Ann Landers

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

- Ani DiFranco

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

- Andrew Cuomo

I love sitting through long things. I mean, 'Gone With the Wind' I will sit through; I love sitting somewhere for four hours, for anything. I love being on a train. I love sitting down for four hours. I think it's the most wonderful thing to be able to sit somewhere and concentrate on something for more than two hours.

- Andre Leon Talley

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

- Alexander Pope

Eventually, my W-2 income will wind down, and my investments can actually make that up.

- Alex Rodriguez

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

- Alanis Morissette

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

- Aesop