Wheel Quotes
672 Wheel quotes by 525 unique authors
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The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It…
— Mario Andretti
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You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly…
— Jacque Fresco
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Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.
— David Bromstad
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The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground…
— Manmohan Acharya
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The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle…
— Norman Corwin
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I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record.…
— Roland Gift
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Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.
— Don Frye
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There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of…
— Henry Ford
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I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder…
— Gregory Galloway
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You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.
— Mark McCormack
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What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
— Samuel Hoffenstein
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Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed…
— Bernd Heinrich
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I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
— Frances E. Willard
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Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
— John Allen Paulos
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In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators…
— John C. Lilly
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The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry…
— Mo Yan
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This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the…
— Plutarch
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Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.
— Mike Cloud
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is…
— Laozi
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I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more to the right…
— Henry David Thoreau
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God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" . . .…
— Shel Silverstein
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I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being…
— Natalie Babbitt
Who Wrote These Wheel Quotes
525 authors contributed a total of 672 Wheel Quotes, led by these top contributors: