Wind/measurement

Famous quotes containing the words wind and/or measurement:

    “If I could see you in a year,
    I’d wind the months in balls—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)