Prevailing Wind

Famous quotes containing the words prevailing and/or wind:

“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)

“What a woman says to her avid lover
Should be written in wind and running water.”
—Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (87–54 B.C.)