Wheels Quotes - Page 9

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.

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

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

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

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

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.

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.

I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.

The wheels in my brain are turning and I assure you a lot is brewing up in my head!

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.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

I’m Adron’s baby sister. Dad just told me about the marriage, and I had to come meet you and make sure Dad hadn’t snapped a wheel and started hallucinating or something. (Zarina)

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.

A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.

Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.