A Quote by George Orwell

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

George Orwell

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Always Badly Go Gone Had Life Said Windmill Would

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George Orwell
British - Novelist
June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

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

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

George Herbert

If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages the windmill. I think that's a metaphor for the collisions we all have over time, as our ideas of ourselves get out of synch with the historical moment.

Elif Batuman

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

William Shakespeare

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

I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things.

Oliver Stone

I like the look of a windmill.

Jeff Duncan

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

Bill Parcells

You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.

John August

I, like Don Quixote, have fought many a windmill.

Dan Pena

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

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

Johnny Ball

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

Johnny Ball

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

Rodney Dangerfield

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

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