Winding Quotes

132 Winding quotes by 125 unique authors

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I… — Herman Melville
Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock. — Arthur Schopenhauer
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away… — Stephen King
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… — William Butler Yeats
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there… — Rudolph A. Marcus
Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face… — Oriana Fallaci
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet? — John Donne
I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I… — Evan Davis
My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going.… — Linwood Barclay
Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population. — Ray Davies
I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop… — Andy Cohen
From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air is cold, skies… — H. Peter Loewer
Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it… — Maggie Osborne
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's… — Frederick Lenz
The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing… — William Hogarth
Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding… — Stuart Kauffman
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on… — Edward Abbey
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'… — William Hazlitt
I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms… — Edward Thomas
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood. — Robert Fulghum
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual… — Havelock Ellis
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape,… — Paul Engle

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