Ifs Quote by Colin MacInnes Download Open image “Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.” — Colin MacInnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Mills Tradition Wheels
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“The second industrial revolution doesn’t present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather with bits… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
I made two rings for myself and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields and they essentially bought… — Waris Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel,… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
“The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom. — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image