Quotes About Tilting At Windmills

#1. Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.

George Voinovich

#3. This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.

Peter Bradshaw

#4. People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Lionel Shriver

#5. I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.

Jamie Waylett

#6. But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good

Wilkie Collins

#7. Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.

Robert Genn

#8. If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Michael Ondaatje

#9. Lieutenant Tindall told me I'd find you up here tilting at putrid windmills. Now I know what he meant.

Steve Hockensmith

#10. We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith flourishes ever more, and the love of every one of you for one another grows ever greater.

Anonymous

#11. First they applaud you. Now you have become VICTIM. Just to get their applause, you will lie more and more. You will start fulfilling their expectations and you will become more and more unreal. This is a vicious cycle.

Osho

#12. I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

Clarence Thomas