Windmills Quotes

32 Windmills quotes by 30 unique authors

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. — Miguel de Cervantes
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived… — John Harvey Kellogg
My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill. — Rodney Dangerfield
London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none… — Lynda Bellingham
There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change… — James E. Faust
There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind. — Johnny Ball
Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two… — Unknown Author
[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity… — Unknown Author
Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills. Alternative… — David Suzuki
The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight… — Billy Corgan
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the… — Lamar Alexander
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college. — Bill Parcells
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I… — Val Guest
I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel,… — Val Guest
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the… — Hermann von Helmholtz
There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a… — Aldo Leopold
I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills. — Carly Fiorina
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. — Rem Koolhaas
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. — Franz Liszt
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. — James Lovelock
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to… — Victor Hugo
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell

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