Top 54 Over Winding Quotes
#1. She drove like fucking Danica Patrick. Jesus. He'd actually been nervous, speeding over winding mountain roads, weaving around slower traffic--which was everyone. He'd been damn glad to see the hotel.
Susan Fanetti
#2. And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
John Donne
#3. Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die - but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years ...
Sara Teasdale
#4. I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#5. So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.
Jason Fried
#6. 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 before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
Oriana Fallaci
#7. I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#8. As he slowed his speed, in reverence to his home, he noticed the long row of trees lining each side of the drive had started to bloom; adding to the beauty of the landscape. As long as he lived, taking the winding drive to the house would always warm his heart and feel like home.
Alex Morgan
#9. Before me floats an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth
May unwind the winding path;
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
("Byzantium")
W.B.Yeats
#10. Bards don't believe in goodbyes - we know that the roads we walk are winding, and we generally tend to come back to people and places we've known and been before, and often at just the right time." I smiled. "We'll meet again.
Sean Gibson
#11. 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' march to dinner
and then to thinking!
William Hazlitt
#13. I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#14. The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who's reading aloud - it's the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
Mem Fox
#15. But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.
Cesar Romero
#16. Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about that - for me, creativity is an important part of our evolution. Art has probably done more good for the world than war. But they're equally powerful. They both create revolutions.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#18. Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.
Samantha Shannon
#19. Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.
Peter Ackroyd
#20. I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."
Nicolas Winding Refn
#21. He was in old pajama bottoms, with a towel flung over his shoulder, a paintbrush in one hand. There was paint on his bare chest and some in his hair...The black spiraling Marks winding down his torso, like vines wreathing a pillar.
Cassandra Clare
#22. I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's
Nicholas Sparks
#23. Zec back toward the living room. The kettle's whistle died away, like an air raid siren winding down. The house went quiet again. "It's over," Reacher said. "You lost." "It's never over," the Zec replied. Hoarse voice,
Lee Child
#24. Hamilton, aware the war was winding down and that this was likely his last shot at glory, went over Lafayette's head and appealed to Washington, who overruled Lafayette and allowed Hamilton to lead.
Sarah Vowell
#25. 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 by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.
Ian Macfarlane
#26. On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.
J.K. Rowling
#27. Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.
Ian Segal
#29. I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
Alec Baldwin
#30. Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
William Blake
#31. Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.
Bob Hope
#32. The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#33. This road is a winding one.
We left the west flooded
with new loneliness.
Donika Kelly
#35. 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 about it.
Frederick Lenz
#36. I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.
Daniel Craig
#37. I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#38. Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#39. Love is an endless drive on a winding road. You can't see everything about another person all at once.
Lauren Kate
#40. I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one level corrupts and on another level does not. But I think, no matter what, mutates.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#41. I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.
Eric Schlosser
#42. And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
William Butler Yeats
#43. My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#44. We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#45. The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.
Stephen King
#46. Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
Rudyard Kipling
#47. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
George Crabbe
#48. When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#49. Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
Laurie Graham
#50. I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#51. i can't always tell
what's better
long drives
in the star-spangled deserts
or long walks
along winding tea gardens.
Sanober Khan
#52. 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 a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
Charles Babbage
#53. Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#54. To escape from the weight of the world, I leave my body where it is, in conversation or at dinner, and walk through a series of winding streets to a house standing back from the road.
Jeanette Winterson
