Wheels famous quotes

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Looks #Wheels #Caught

Put your shoulder to the wheel.
-- Aesop

#Life #Wheels #Shoulders

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Wheels #Misery #Pleasure

My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Running #Investing #Wheels

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Happiness #Joy #Wheels

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
-- Alexander Pope

#Butterfly #Wheels #Satire

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
-- Alexander Pope

#Men #Goal #Wheels

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#May #Evening #Wheels

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.
-- Anacreon

#Life #Wheels #Chariots

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
-- Andrea Pirlo

#Wheels #Invention #Playstation

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
-- Andrew Stanton

#Wheels #Mature #Enough

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.
-- Anita Desai

#Wheels #Turns #Stills

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
-- Annie Besant

#Karma #Vices #Wheels

Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.
-- Anthony Michael Hall

#Wheels #Example #Shooting

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
-- Antonio Machado

#Answers #Wheels #Break

The world is a wheel always turning.
-- Anzia Yezierska

#World #Wheels

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Circles #Wheels #Done

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
-- Aubrey de Grey

#Fire #Desire #Wheels

When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.
-- Bam Margera

#Thinking #Drunk #Wheels

The wheels of justice - they're square wheels.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Squares #Justice #Wheels

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#People #Wheels

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Wheels #Add #Generations

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Leadership #Wheels #Noise

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.
-- Beth Moore

#Wheels #Fit #Steering

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Library #Wheels #Librarian

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.
-- Bob Dylan

#Wheels #Steps #Sometimes

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
-- Bob Dylan

#Men #Poverty #Wheels

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
-- Bob Dylan

#Eye #Winning #Wheels

My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel
-- Brenda Blethyn

#Dad #Wheels #Wagons

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
-- Brendan Fraser

#Wheels #Not Sure #Ancestor

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.
-- Charlie Watts

#Use #Rooms #Wheels

Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.
-- Cindy Crawford

#Kids #House #Wheels

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
-- Colin MacInnes

#Wheels #Tradition #Mills

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
-- Confucius

#Fate #Today #Wheels

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
-- Croesus

#Men #Wheels #Affair

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.
-- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

#Real #Hammers #Wheels

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
-- Dante Alighieri

#Eye #Heaven #Wheels

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...
-- Dashiell Hammett

#Men #Ferris Wheels #Wheels

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions
-- Dean Kamen

#Fire #Innovation #Wheels

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Courage #Wheels #Injustice

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.
-- Donny Robinson

#Feet #Wheels #Sticks

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Wheels #Good Things

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Money #Waiting #Wheels

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
-- Edna Ferber

#Wheels #Ends #Fixed

Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Oil #Evil #Wheels

It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.
-- Edward Thorndike

#Nature #Wheels #Common

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Wheels #Wealth #Used

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
-- Emma Goldman

#Law #Ideas #Wheels

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
-- Ethel M. Dell

#Wheels #Speed #Enough

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Wheels

We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,
-- Fred Upton

#Needs #Information #Wheels

My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.
-- Freddie Prinze, Jr.

#Mom #Lap #Wheels

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!
-- Frederick The Great

#Vanity #Water #Wheels

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
-- Friedrich Engels

#Museums #Spinning #Wheels

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
-- Gary Busey

#Body #Wheels #Three

Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
-- Gary Lutz

#Might #Matter #Wheels

Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
-- Geoff Thompson

#Wheels #Action

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.
-- George Jones

#Home #Drunk #Wheels

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Song #Men #Wheels

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.
-- Gerald Massey

#Life #Iron #Wheels

It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)
-- Gerard Way

#Perfect #Wheels #Hamsters

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.
-- Gertrude Bell

#Nice #Wheels #Helping

When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus.
-- Graham Hill

#Lotuses #Sitting #Wheels

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
-- Haruki Murakami

#Mean #Thinking #Wheels

I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.
-- Henry Rollins

#Wings #Another Day #Wheels

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
-- Herman Kahn

#Important #Wheels #Helping

We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
-- Hosni Mubarak

#Order #Track #Wheels

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Country #Car #Wheels

Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
-- Ian St John

#Wheels

Revolution means turning the wheel.
-- Igor Stravinsky

#Mean #Revolution #Wheels

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?
-- Isaac Asimov

#Wheels #Inventor

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel
-- Ivan Turgenev

#Nature #Wheels #Care

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
-- J. K. Rowling

#Lying #Responsibility #Wheels

We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
-- Jack Nicholson

#Wheels #Bus

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!
-- Jacques Lipchitz

#Men #Imagination #Wheels

I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.
-- Jason Statham

#Wheels #Behinds

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
-- Jennifer Granholm

#Wheels #Drivers #Refuse

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.
-- Jim Butcher

#Running #Thinking #Wheels

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
-- Jim Morrison

#Eye #Hands #Wheels

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.
-- Jimmie Johnson

#Two #Dirt #Wheels

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
-- John Allen Paulos

#Ferris Wheels #Wheels #Strange

It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.
-- John Harvey Kellogg

#Water #Fossils #Wheels

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.
-- John Kennedy Toole

#Crush #Divinity #Wheels

So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.
-- John Kennedy Toole

#Circles #Wheels #Principles

I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.
-- John M. Geddes

#Winter #Mind #Wheels

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
-- John Mellencamp

#Records #Wheels #Humans

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.
-- John Peers

#Wheels #Replaced

The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.
-- Josephine Pollard

#Down And #Wheels #Stills

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
-- Josh Billings

#Grease #Wheels

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!
-- Joyce Meyer

#Home #Potters #Wheels

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.
-- Justin Berfield

#Spinning #Wheels

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
-- Juvenal

#Toss #Fool #Wheels

the wheel of fate crushes us all
-- Kami Garcia

#Crush #Fate #Wheels

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
-- Kate Millett

#Way #Spinning #Wheels

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.
-- Kathleen Hanna

#Thinking #Feminist #Wheels

You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.
-- Keiichi Tsuchiya

#Car #Waiting #Wheels

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
-- Kenneth Grahame

#Missing #Wheels #Pieces

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.
-- Kris Carr

#Cancer #Wheels #Awake

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
-- Kumail Nanjiani

#Games #Wheels #Fortune

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
-- Lana Parrilla

#Children #Parent #Wheels