Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.
To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.
The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.
Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.
Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.
Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.
I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.
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.
You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.
The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.
Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!
It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.
as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.
The world is a clock 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.
