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Windmill Quotes

George Orwell quote: "Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had..."
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. George Orwell
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. Hermann von Helmholtz
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
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 are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey.... Vicki Lawrence
Bill Maher quote: "You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A..."
You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. Bill Maher
Nothing moves fast in Texas except the windmills. And the hawk that rises up with a clatter of wings.(Nothing more startling there than sudden motion, Everything is so still.) May Sarton
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
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same god as the god of the church and I might not be digging on the message of the president because the windmills of his mind are cracked on a lot of subjects concerning people. Lynda Barry
The sky was thick with TV. If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d'tat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray. Designer pectorals. Gliding towards Ayemenem like skydivers. Making patterns in the sky. Wheels. Windmills. Flowers blooming and unblooming. Arundhati Roy
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
Carly Fiorina quote: "I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at..."
I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills. Carly Fiorina
Bill Parcells quote: "I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college."
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college. Bill Parcells
Miguel de Cervantes quote: "Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants,..."
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. Miguel de Cervantes
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

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