Windmill Quotes

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

Windmills Of Your Mind. - Donna Summer

Windmill, Windmill for the land. - Gorillaz

When it comes down to it, the numbers of Democrats means that it begins to feel to some like tilting at windmills. - Laurence H. Tribe

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill. - Howard Finster

We're not tilting at windmills anymore. People are talking about it everywhere. - Richard Donovan

To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan. - George Voinovich

This is not your father's miniature golf course. There are no windmills and clown's mouths to hit the ball through. This new course will be challenging. - Mike Parks

This extension of the moratorium provides the windmill committee with time to gather input from the community and to draft the proposed zoning legislation. - Paul McAfee

These were women who did not make a habit of taking their clothes off in public before they began performing at the Windmill. I suppose we could view all of this as politically incorrect, but the truth is that what happened at the Windmill brought many people together as a means of escaping the tragedy that was surrounding them. - Stephen Frears