Top 100 Wind Up Quotes
#1. I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.
Danielle Steel
#2. Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
Karl Hess
#3. Be happy. Wherever you wind up. And know that I'll be thinking of you, wherever I am.
T. Torrest
#4. On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it's the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.
Wildbow
#5. Searching outside oneself for what can only be found within can lead to a life lived in the wrong direction and sacrifices made for the wrong reasons. People can wind up alienated from themselves even if they achieve lofty goals set by others.
Michael Meade
#6. You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.
Sally Jessy Raphael
#7. I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.
Jennifer Connelly
#8. Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.
Jackie Gleason
#9. Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you know.
J.M. Darhower
#10. I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.
Jessica Hecht
#11. Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.
Lawrence Block
#12. I have stayed in touch and connected with many over the years. I am very lucky that way. Some that you don't expect to connect with you will wind up loving. The ones that you look the forward to the most will sometimes let you down.
Michelle Visage
#13. I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.
Diablo Cody
#14. Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
Alex Kapranos
#16. If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.
Michael Spiller
#17. If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge.
Ted Kooser
#18. The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.
Rudy Josephs
#19. How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship.
Robert C. Martin
#20. When you're constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.
Michael Soll
#21. My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
Nile Rodgers
#22. I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America, for me to wind up in a prison was really just about inevitable. It happens to so many thousands of black youth.
Malcolm X
#23. Even the spate of clearly well-intentioned films about AIDS only added to the certainty that gay characters wind up dead by the final reel. After all, in the movies, no one lives with HIV ... perhaps the ultimate stigmatization.
Robert Dunbar
#24. If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
Stephen Chbosky
#25. The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.
Jon Stewart
#26. Hayden embodied everything I wasn't but wanted to be. I spent my entire life trying to color inside the lines, only to wind up restrained by them.
Helena Hunting
#27. We wind up disappointed with our life and end up depressed because we have wasted it
Sunday Adelaja
#28. I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
Randy Quaid
#29. Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack Kemp
#30. All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
Dizzy Dean
#31. When you have the feeling that anything's possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.
James Cameron
#32. You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
Padma Lakshmi
#33. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.
Julie Gregory
#34. In trials and hardships, we can choose to be grounded in hope and experience peace in the chaos, or wiggle and wrestle with worry and wind up at the same destination!EL
Evinda Lepins
#35. But whenever there's the right kind of nut making headlines, a Slasher or an Icepick Prowler, a certain number of people get pistol permits and a certain number of others buy illegal guns. Then some of them get drunk and shoot their wives. None of them ever seems to wind up nailing the Slasher. I
Lawrence Block
#36. A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
W.S. Gilbert
#37. If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
George Carlin
#38. Only a matter of time before you wind up dead. Given what and who
Kaylea Cross
#39. Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics ... I just go in and let it happen.
Alanis Morissette
#40. Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods. We not only have to suffer hunger but also wind up with perverted cravings because we are nutrient-deficient to boot.
Joel Fuhrman
#41. Canning is a whole world of a thing to do. It requires that you get out of your head. It's a Zen thing. You cannot be wondering about your inadequacies and how they drove Bob off and be making jelly. You'll wind up with big, cylindrical jujubes.
Debby Bull
#42. People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you.
Woody Allen
#43. I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.
Dolly Parton
#44. I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us.
Katie Klein
#45. I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.
Hildegard Knef
#46. The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
Molly Ivins
#47. It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
Albert Pujols
#48. I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
Alec Baldwin
#49. If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).
Lyn Nofziger
#50. I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.
Todd Rundgren
#51. And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.
Irwin Kula
#52. I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
Barry Zito
#53. A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.
Bronson Arroyo
#54. People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#55. Life is like a game of chess ... there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move ... where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves ... but first you have to make some kind of move.
Mort Walker
#56. Noboru Wataya,
Where are you?
Did the wind-up bird
Forget to wind your spring?
Haruki Murakami
#57. You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.
I need you, she replied.
Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.
Jodi Picoult
#58. A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty
like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.
Haruki Murakami
#59. If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing. AMY:
Hanya Yanagihara
#60. If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.
Hannibal
#61. A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.
Patti Stanger
#62. There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.
Juno Temple
#63. I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.
Elton John
#64. I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!
Helena Bonham Carter
#65. If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.
Mike Weir
#66. Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
Jack Welch
#67. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
Robert Browning
#68. I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.
Larry Gelbart
#69. It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.
Vince Gilligan
#70. On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map.
Chris Holm
#71. I'm pretty sure you were in my dreams before you walked into my life. I felt it the first time I saw you. You pulled at me. Took hold of my heart and never let go." ... "You were never supposed to be with Dillon. You were always supposed to wind up with me, but fate interrupted us for awhile
Gail McHugh
#72. You don't construct your stories well, Pugsy. You start at the end, then go back to any part which happens to appeal to you at the moment, and eventually wind up at the beginning.
P.G. Wodehouse
#73. I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.
Hugh Downs
#74. I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.
Anthony Quinn
#75. I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
...
I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
Marge Piercy
#76. Life is like a maze of doors and then all open on the side you're on.
Just keep on pushing hard, boy, try as you may ... you're going to wind up where you started from.
Yusuf Islam
#77. Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.
Burt Prelutsky
#78. If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
Marvin Gaye
#79. When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.
Andrew Cuomo
#80. Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.
Jenna Alatari
#81. Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.
Haruki Murakami
#82. If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#83. I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies.
Brian Molko
#84. You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.
Jodi Picoult
#85. (P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
Gayle Forman
#86. A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.
Kerry Cohen
#87. My father, a closet astronomer, has tried to explain black holes to me, how they are so heavy they absorb everything, even light, right into their center. Moments like this are the same kind of vacuum; no matter what you cling to, you wind up being sucked in.
Jodi Picoult
#88. The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
Lowell Bergman
#89. Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.
Morrissey
#90. The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
Bam Margera
#91. We create models to explain nature, but the models wind up gatecrashing nature and driving away the original inhabitants.
David Mitchell
#92. To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.
Joe Torre
#93. I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
Floyd Abrams
#94. Speak English at this table or I will fire you so fast you'll wind up standing at the airport wondering how you got from here to there without any goddamn pants on.
Mira Grant
#95. Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
Jakob Dylan
#96. Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it.
Carl Sagan
#97. I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
Damien Chazelle
#98. We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.
Holly Black
#99. Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Ann Landers
#100. I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
Mel Brooks
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