Prevailing Westerly Flow

Famous quotes containing the words prevailing, westerly and/or flow:

    As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    Water doesn’t flow if it’s level, and people won’t complain if you treat them on the level.
    Chinese proverb.