The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel. — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills. — David Tepper Copy Share Image
I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil. — Juicy J Copy Share Image
When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind,… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these… — Shelley Morrison Copy Share Image
I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the… — Jason O'Mara Copy Share Image
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My hometown is 30,000 people. It's remote, but it's an oil town, so it's developed. There's definitely a mill mentality: not a… — Aaron Lines Copy Share Image
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
These puppy mills are horrific. It's totally for-profit breeding. It's despicable. — Beth Ostrosky Stern Copy Share Image