Winded Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow…
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.…
— Laurie Helgoe
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Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.
— Mason Cooley
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When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd…
— George Saunders
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I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or…
— Fernando Pessoa
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It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive.
— Stuart Scott
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A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because…
— Bruce Dickinson
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I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day,…
— Robert De Niro
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My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a…
— Jill Scott
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Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
— Mark Udall
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
— John Grisham
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The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary…
— Margaret Atwood
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We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers.…
— Irvine Welsh
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Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon.
— Duane Dewel
Who Wrote These Winded Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Winded Quotes as follows: