Quotes About Windup

#1. Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever the socially acceptable reaction should be.

Jessica Knoll

#2. Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. Then there was your voice
Like a windup tin toy
Like the sweetest nails on a chalkboard
That I ever heard

Michelle Dalton

#4. windup train that made a lot of noise. Every time it bumped into something it turned around and went the other way. Fudge liked it a lot. He likes anything that's noisy.

Judy Blume

#5. [T]he cascade of discoveries in neuroscience and genetics has created an image of individuals as automata, slaves to their genes or neurotransmitters, with no more free will than a child's windup toy.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#6. I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

Satchel Paige

#7. She is an animal. Servile as a dog. And yet if he is careful to make no demands, to leave the air between them open, another version of the windup girl emerges. As precious and rare as a living bo tree. Her soul, emerging from within the strangling strands of her engineered DNA.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#8. As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#9. The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him ... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

Ty Cobb

#10. I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

Harmon Killebrew

#11. You think the whole electrical system is fried?" Chuck said, "Good possibility." "That would mean fences." Chuck picked up an apple as it floated onto his foot. He went into a windup and kicked his leg and fired it into the wall. "Stee-rike one!" He turned to Teddy. "That would mean fences, yes.

Dennis Lehane

#12. Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

Fabiola Gianotti

#13. Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

William Zinsser

#14. Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

David Levithan

#15. I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.

Shawn Johnson

#16. Bella, I want to be the only mistake you can't live without.

D.B. Canavan

#17. I could run, too, but my feet hurt. It's tough being a fashion vixen.

Kimberly Raye

#18. Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

Victoria Osteen

#19. I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

Jose Ferreira

#20. I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

Matthew Arnold

#21. They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

Luke Taylor