Windmills Quotes - Page 2

• My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Winning, Advice

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• Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
  And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
  For who would live so petty and unblest
  That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
  Rather than, screened by safe majority,
  Preserve his little life to little end,
  And never raise a rebel cry!

  John Galsworthy

  Sky, Majority, Rebel

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

  Walter Pater

  Weather, Light, Doors

  Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press

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• The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.

  Tim Burton

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  "Tim Burton - part four". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

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• The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

  Billy Corgan

  Fighting, Men, Rocks

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• We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

  James Lovelock

  Wind Turbines, Energy, Schemes

  "James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens'". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

  Lamar Alexander

  Football, Grandmother, Talking

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• Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Winning, Umpires, Design

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• 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

  Girl, Dog, Crazy

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Littles, Berlioz, Function

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• Wind power, if not properly planned and sited, can harm birds and bats (although Danish studies of 10,000 bird kills revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills). Alternative energy sources are absolutely necessary. Global warming will kill birds and bats, as well as other species, in much greater numbers than wind power.

  David Suzuki

  Wind, Numbers, Car

  "Renewable energy requires strength of will" by David Suzuki and Faisal Moola, www.straight.com. November 4, 2008.

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• Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wind, Energy, Income

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• we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Tired, Our World, Cynical

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned. Adrian spoke first. "I'm going to assume that means he's flying you to Amsterdam on his private jet. If so, I'd like to come along. But not for the windmills.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Flying, Amsterdam

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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• This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Drama, Different, Cinema

  "Cannes 2012: Holy Motors - review" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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

  Bill Parcells

  Fighting, College

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Wind, Two, Water

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.154, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

  Frank Debenham

  Fall, Blow, Average

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• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Country, Powerful, Wind

  William Stanley Jevons (1866). “The coal question: an enquiry concerning the progress of the Nation, and the probable exhaustion of our coal-mines”, p.144

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• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  Caity Lotz

  Art, Moving, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Angel, Firsts, Murder

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• We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.

  Paul Watson

  Air, Wind, Sea

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• Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Ideas, Car

  Vice presidential debate questions, www.politico.com. October 11, 2012.

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• It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Food, Science, Water

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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