Windmill Quotes

#1. Sunlight stretched across the Nebraska miles, burning fiery pink-gold through a bank of clouds on the horizon. It was almost sunset, and the land spread out, an expanse of never-ending cornfields broken only by the rising silhouette of a windmill or grain silo.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#2. If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.

A.A. Milne

#3. My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army.

James Blunt

#4. I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don't think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.

Stef Wertheimer

#5. My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.

Rodney Dangerfield

#6. A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don't you ever forget this!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Wind blows. You can set a wall against it, you can build up a windmill. The choice is yours

Russ

#8. We know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

Cynthia Heimel

#9. The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.

Lynda Bellingham

#12. Don Quixotes! Stand aback from my windmill!

Lara Biyuts

#13. To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Victor Hugo

#14. The quest toward a windmill is more fulfilling than an empty stroll, sometimes, even if the windmill isn't real.

Elizabeth Silver

#15. Ico ran back to the windmill, growing increasily nervous with each moment Yorda was out of his sight. He didn't want to think what would happen if the shadow-creatures attacked while they were apart.

Miyuki Miyabe

#16. New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit?

Bill Maher

#17. I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Franz Liszt

#18. The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist

Karl Marx

#19. Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

Khaled Hosseini

#20. I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill ... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

Val Guest

#21. It looked, at first sight, like a portable windmill that had been attacked by an enormous insect, and at second sight like a touring torture chamber for an Inquisition that wanted to get out and about a bit and enjoy the fresh air.

Terry Pratchett

#22. To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

Kenneth Branagh

#23. If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind.

Rafael Sabatini

#24. I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made ... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

Val Guest

#25. From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Sarah Dessen

#26. Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill.
"You're saying it wrong," Harry heard Hermione snap. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and long."
"You do it, then, if you're so clever," Ron snarled.

J.K. Rowling

#27. There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.

Johnny Ball

#28. I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

Bill Parcells

#29. I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

William Shakespeare

#30. To the jumpers overhearing the conversation it was obvious - Troop had come down with another case of dragon fever. The Don Quixote of smokejumping was once again engaged in mortal combat with this, his latest windmill.

Murry A. Taylor

#31. Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

Rem Koolhaas

#32. You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

George Herbert

#33. A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

Walter Pater

#34. When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

Howard Finster

#35. I only remember fighting Ozzy O'Dell once. It was back in second grade. He threw these weird windmill-like punches, which was probably an early sign that the swim team was in his future.

Neal Shusterman

#36. Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly.

George Orwell

#37. I started to enjoy the regal sport of cockfighting ... but I'm still having trouble getting the hang of windmilling the bayonet

Josh Stern