Wheels famous quotes
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Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.
-- Lauren Beukes -
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
-- Lech Walesa -
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
-- Lorne Michaels -
Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.
-- Louis Riel -
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.
-- Lucio Russo -
His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.
-- Luigi Pulci -
If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.
-- Maddox -
One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.
-- Malorie Blackman -
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
-- Marie de France -
You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.
-- Mark McCormack -
Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
-- Mark Wahlberg -
I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!
-- Martha MacIsaac -
to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.
-- Mary Astor -
The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.
-- Mary Jo Bang -
Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.
-- Matthew Henry -
What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook -
And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.
-- Michael Grant -
If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.
-- Michael Andretti -
Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels
-- Michael Symon -
These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.
-- Mickey Rivers -
Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.
-- Mike Cloud -
I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
-- Mitch Hedberg -
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.
-- Morris West -
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a ***** user
-- Pat Sajak -
I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.
-- Paul Walker -
It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
-- Peter Tosh -
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
-- Philippa Gregory -
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
-- Philippa Gregory -
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
-- Rachel Nichols -
I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
-- Rachelle Lefevre -
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
-- Ray Charles -
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.
-- Ree Drummond -
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton -
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
-- Richard Pryor -
Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.
-- Ridley Pearson -
We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.
-- Robert James Waller -
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor
-- Robert Jordan -
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
-- Robert Morley -
Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
-- Roberto Duran -
There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
-- Russell Baker -
The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.
-- Ryan Bingham -
In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.
-- Samuel Goldwyn -
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
-- Samuel Hoffenstein -
Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.
-- Sara Evans -
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
-- Stephen King -
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
-- Stephen King -
What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?
-- Steve Doocy -
Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.
-- Steven Tyler -
I can drive anything on wheels... I can drive anything, actually.
-- Stone Cold Steve Austin -
I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.
-- Stone Gossard -
The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.
-- Sun Tzu -
But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again.
-- Susane Colasanti -
If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.
-- T. Harv Eker -
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
-- Terry Waite -
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.
-- Tracey Gold -
I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.
-- Tracey Gold -
Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.
-- Tupac Shakur -
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
-- Umberto Eco -
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
-- Victor Gold -
I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
-- Vince Vaughn -
She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.
-- Vincent Canby -
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
-- Walter Darby Bannard -
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
If you love Harry Potter, you're going to absolutely love this...this is the biggest box set that Warner Bros. has ever done. If it was any bigger, it'd need wheels.
-- Warwick Davis -
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow
-- William Carlos Williams -
If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?
-- William Hartnell -
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.
-- William Shakespeare -
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
-- William Wordsworth -
I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.
-- Yulia Tymoshenko -
Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.
-- Anthony Geary -
I feel like, I mean, there's no new wheel, you know. A newsmagazine is what it is.
-- Ed Gordon -
Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.
-- Jerold Panas -
I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.
-- John J. Geddes -
Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.
-- Lil' Kim -
I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.
-- Melanie Martinez -
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
-- Susan B. Anthony -
The wheels in my brain are turning and I assure you a lot is brewing up in my head!
-- Tina Parol -
The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.
-- Unknown -
I'm striving to make things which are the most exciting things I can make that will fit in people's homes. And in that respect, working on the wheel is economically about the only answer I know, because one can, as Leach said, make 50 pots in a day. You can make 100 pots in a day. A really good potter can make 400 pots in a day.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.
-- Aaron Gwin -
If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.
-- Aaron Gwin -
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
-- Andrew Lang -
Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
-- Benvenuto Cellini