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Quotes About Winding

Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.
~ Karl Iagnemma
I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.
~ Caroline Polachek
I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.
~ Sturgill Simpson
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.
~ Tim Bray
To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.
~ Christina Hendricks
In my childhood dreams, I pictured Italy as paradise. I longed to be the next Sophia Loren, living in a village with winding cobbled streets where washing hung from windows and everybody gesticulated and shouted amicably. Ah, but life surprises.
~ Carol Drinkwater
The most singular thing is that, if the clock stopped, I wound it, so that it did not miss a tick, and I could count all my lost moments.
~ Machado de Assis
A clock does not power itself. It has to be wound. A heart also does not power itself; it must encounter things that bring it joy in life in order for it to be full. This is why saying, 'I am love' is a error. It's 'I love God' which makes the difference.
~ Edward Weiss
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
~ George Herbert
I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
~ Alec Baldwin
I sat up, surprised at the lateness, forgetting for a single, blissful moment the ruin of the previous day, and then all of it returned, winding itself around my ribs until I could barely breathe.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.
~ Haruki Murakami
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.
~ Richard Jefferies
Is to bring about for them such a complexity of relations—unless indeed we call it a simplicity!—that the situation has to wind itself up. They want to go back.
~ Henry James
They might in short have represented any mystery they would; the point being predominantly that the key to the mystery, the key that could wind and unwind it without a snap of the spring, was there in her pocket – or rather, no doubt, clasped at this crisis in her hand and pressed, as she walked back and forth, to her breast. She
~ Henry James
I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
On we climb, keeping time To hidden goat-bells' nibbling chime, Feet in the dew of ferns we climb, Souls in a sort of winding rhyme, Up the path that turns and turns Toward the top where morning burns.
~ bynner witter
I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or campy.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
our journey toward truth is often a winding and convoluted path and what we find at the end is not always the truth we expected at the beginning of the journey.
~ Christian Scharen
The road through Irish history is made up of lanes which wind about, and never come to an end till they twist into pathways which never begin.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's
~ Nicholas Sparks
WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? IN HONEYDOWN, IT WINDS UP AND WINDS DOWN HERE.
~ Daisy Meadows
And see not ye that bonny road, Which winds about the fernie brae? That is the road to fair Elfland, Where you and I this night maun gae.
~ Walter Scott