Winding Down Quotes:

The world is a clock winding down.

- Rick Yancey

source: Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.391, Penguin

topic: World, Clock, Winding Down

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

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Summer, Philosophical, Mood, Winding Down

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.

- Cesar Romero

topic: Fun, War, Technology, Winding Down

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

- Jennifer James

topic: Want, Leisure, Speed, Winding Down

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

- Rudolph A. Marcus

topic: Research, Too Much, Program, Winding Down

Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do. I like growing so I think I might start growing again. As a medical marijuana patient, under California law I am licensed to grow 12 plants.

- Tommy Chong

source: Source: vegascannabismag.com

topic: Thinking, Marijuana, Law, Winding Down

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

- Colleen McCullough

topic: Wisdom, Loss, Cells, Winding Down, Slowing

You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money.

- Bill Maher

topic: Lunch, Missing, Watches, Winding Down

And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.201, Anchor

topic: Uncles, Heart, Autumn, Winding Down, Rite

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [12]

topic: Memorable, Watches, Tempest, Winding Down

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.

- Isabel Allende

topic: Opportunity, Years, Scarcity, Winding Down

Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, "living wills" (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions.

- Jamie Dimon

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Independent, Long, Progress, Dodd Frank, Liquidity

When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to provide some sort of inside poop. Which is not something I'd be interested in doing, and anyway, I didn't. I actually knew more people in his dad's administration. So it was obviously winding down at Rolling Stone, and they were having financial troubles, too. They weren't getting the advertising, and the issues were getting thin. They fired Bob Love, who'd been my editor there for a long time.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Dad, Thinking, Editors, Winding Down

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.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Men, White, Land, Winding Down

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.

- Havelock Ellis

topic: Suicide, Suicidal, Mean, Winding Down, Winding Up

I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.

- Joe R. Lansdale

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Winding Down, Conscientious Objectors

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

- Robert Aris Willmott

source: Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

topic: Drama, Moving, Epic, Alps, Winding Down

I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Home, Thinking, Car, Winding Down, Driving Cars

I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing.

- Evan Davis

topic: Jobs, Sleep, Today, Winding Down

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

- Bob Hope

topic: War, Appreciate, Want, Hanging Around, Winding Down

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

- David Byrne

topic: Thinking, Car, People, Winding Down