Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel…

The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

— Perfume Genius

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will,…

— Annie Dillard

Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea…

— Paul Ryan

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

— Carly Fiorina

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've…

— Seth Godin

There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of…

— Aldo Leopold

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“When the wind of change blows, some build walls, while others build windmills.”

— Lyndi Alexander

I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

— William Shakespeare

There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places…

— Peace Pilgrim

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at…

— Lamar Alexander

The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business…

— William Stanley Jevons

The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with…

— Morris Sullivan

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

— George Orwell