Winding Quotes
132 quotes by 127 authors
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of…
— Charles Babbage
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
— Edward Abbey
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity…
— David Byrne
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and…
— Victor Hugo
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
— William Butler Yeats
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Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
— Robert Breault
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"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding…
— Lewis Grizzard
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Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding…
— T. Harv Eker
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The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in…
— Joseph Addison
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Life`s a long and winding ride, better have the right one by your side; And happiness don`t drug its feet, time moves faster than you…
— Kip Moore
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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
— Chen Shui-bian
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These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing them…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness…
— Colleen McCullough
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For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but…
— Ian Macfarlane
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Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.
— Gail Z. Martin
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The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a…
— Mel Smith
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One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and…
— Satchel Paige
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her…
— Anne Rice
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All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
— Gautama Buddha
Who Wrote These Winding Quotes
127 authors contributed a total of 132 Winding Quotes, led by these top contributors: