Best Winding Down Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There’s an air of things closing down. Teachers wear shorts and T-shirts to class. They show movies while they clean out their desks. Nobody has the energy to care anymore. We’re all just counting down, passing time.”

School Summer June Winding Down End Of School

Book:Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“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.”

Process Clear Too Much Research Aspect Program Experiments 1960s Theoretical Winding Down

Author:Rudolph A. Marcus

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Home Suffering Streets Car Driving Funeral Driving Cars Winding Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Summer Philosophical Heavy Mood Winding Down

Author:Robert Fulghum

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

Watches Missing Republican Lunch Negotiation Winding Down

Author:Bill Maher

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

Ifs Want Hard Easy Speed Leisure Winding Down

Book:Windows

Source: Windows

“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.”

Light Romance Moving Fiction Moral History Drama Pages Surprise Casts Stranger Accidents Features Epic Majesty Knights Armor Alps Hector Robinson Crusoe Winding Down

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“The world is a clock winding down.”

World Clock Winding Down

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Thinking War Down And Prison Bones Accepted Canada Sincerity Winding Down Conscientious Objectors

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“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.”

Men Lasts Found Water White Land Quiet Mountain Gold White Man Short Time Winding Down

Author:Chief Joseph

“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.”

Thinking Want Might Law Grows Growing Down And Plant Patient Medical California Marijuana Medical Marijuana Winding Down

Author:Tommy Chong

“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.”

Way Long Action Term Progress Plans Events Independent Resolution Frank Collapse Long Way Transparency Liquidity Winding Down Dodd Frank

Author:Jamie Dimon

“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.”

People Thinking Long Issues Trouble Special Dad Long Time Stones Financial Advertising Administration Editors Bob Rolling Rolling Stones Poop Winding Down

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

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

Watches Strikes Wit Memorable Tempest Winding Down

Author:William Shakespeare

“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.”

Years Matter Opportunity Fury Scarcity Predicaments Winding Down

Author:Isabel Allende

“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.”

People Thinking Made Might Car Instruments Musical Abandon Apartment Commodity Reign Suggesting Musical Instruments Winding Down

Author:David Byrne

“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.”

Mind Wisdom Age Loss Accepting Dying Flesh Old Age Cells Slow Down Slowing Attractiveness Ordeals Winding Down

Author:Colleen McCullough

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

Want War Appreciate Fellows One Liner One Line Hanging Around Appreciate You Winding Down

Author:Bob Hope

“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.”

War Fun Sides Technology Style Products Plus Glamour Nightlife Winding Down

Author:Cesar Romero

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Lasts Waiting Sound Car Beats Towns West Winter Woods Snow Planes Autumn Uncles Rite Banging Winter Snow Quails Winding Down Pheasants

Book:'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“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.”

Feels Today Jobs Sleep Late Enjoyed Pillow Going To Sleep Winding Down

Author:Evan Davis