Top 204 Winding Quotes & Sayings

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

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.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Life`s a long and winding ride, better have the right one by your side; And happiness don`t drug its feet, time moves faster than you think.

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

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?

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

While I could still play in the Premier League, I really did not want to go abroad. I was not thinking about winding down my career.

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.

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.

Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Since I was a child, I've gone to bed when things get too much. As a result, I have more trouble winding up than winding down in the morning. I need a second cup of coffee and then I potter around in a disgusting white towelling dressing gown for as long as possible.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

I quite like winding up other competitive people. I enjoy that.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

I often liken my love life to the pathetic fallacy found in a Bronte novel: a long and winding road tented by storm clouds and rain. Kidding.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

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.

Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series

The world is a clock winding down.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

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.

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

I am poised and confident in what I do, so I think whether it's shot clock winding down in the playoffs or regular season game, I'm going to have the same mentality.

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.