Top 30 Quotes About Winkle
#1. A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.
Mick Miller
#2. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.
Jaffe Cohen
#3. I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory - that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.
Bowie Kuhn
#4. Mr. Rip Wan winkle, be a star that twinkle.
Aporva Kala
#5. You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn't question knowing.
Stephen King
#6. I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.
Salman Rushdie
#7. By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of them and putting them together. So it felt, actually, like one of those ideas that clicked for us, right away, on instinct.
Alex Kurtzman
#8. Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#9. Ours is a culture that dances on the edge of ephemerality. If our servers slept for too long or if we left our iPads unplugged for too long, we'd wake up like Rip Van Winkle to find all of our book culture erased.
Jason Merkoski
#10. I steal, Winkle said, with a smile that said I'm joking and a glint in his eye that said I'm not.
Orson Scott Card
#11. War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can't feel it, you weren't paying attention. And if you weren't paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.
Clint Van Winkle
#12. Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
#13. Today, the lines between mentoring and networking are blurring. Welcome to the world of mentworking.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
#16. No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.
Clint Van Winkle
#17. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
#19. A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
#20. I wanted people to know that we fired rounds into moving trucks and open windows to survive, not for anyone else's freedom. Not for the Democrats. Not for Republicans. Just to survive.
Clint Van Winkle
#21. Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.
Clint Van Winkle
#22. Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.
Clint Van Winkle
#23. Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war - peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.
Clint Van Winkle
#24. Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
#27. I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.
Clint Van Winkle
#28. I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me
Clint Van Winkle
#29. The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.
Seth Adam Smith
#30. I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.
Clint Van Winkle
