Winding Quotes

OK, that was a very big break, the `60s thing. But it was winding up from the days of Elvis. The Elvis period was super-rebellious. Because that kind of music was much more shocking than the music of the Beatles - the early Beatles... The sexuality of the early Elvis years was much more shocking to a straight audience than the Beatles` I Want to Hold Your Hand... The wild men - Elvis, Jerry Lee - they were much more scary. So when we`re talking about any `60s break, you have to take that into account. They`d already made this sexual charge.

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I`m dealing with is Bob. I don`t know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don`t know where he is now.

Snowboarding is my passion. When my pro career was winding down, I didn`t feel done by any means. I still loved riding and I was still out there a bunch. The transfer to coaching and to being out there with kids was natural.

In the hospitality industry, you are surrounded by alcohol all the time, ... There is the social aspect to it ? the winding down after a service, working irregular hours, working under high pressure ? and the culture of drinking is enormous in the UK, with an explosion of binge drinking and of young women drinking.

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

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 prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.

What we see now is the outbreak winding down to some extent. There have been fewer new cases per day occurring over the weekend and we have had no new cases today (Monday),

" Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."