Wheels Quotes - Page 11

• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.

  Ruben Martinez

  Crush, Crazy, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.

  Jim Woodring

  Body, Twenties, Aliens

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

  Benito Mussolini

  Moving, Blood

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• North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Korea, Time Zones

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• We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.

  Francoise Gilot

  Men, Feet, Criticism

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• Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field.

  Julien Gracq

  Distance, Sleep, Journey

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• One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

  Meryl Streep

  Brave, Iron Lady, Ifs

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• While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Teacher, Teaching, Exploration

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• The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

  Rachel Kushner

  Dream, Thinking, Make You Think

  Rachel Kushner (2013). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Stuff, Speed, Bigger

  Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Rocks, Stuff, Rolling

  Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize performance, and frames, wheels, water bottles are all tested. Even clothing, like my Castelli Stealth Top, is faster than skin.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Technology, Impact, Tunnels

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Worry

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.63, Penguin

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• Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Men, Circles, Feet

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2012). “The Best Tales of Hoffmann”, p.365, Courier Corporation

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• In this chaotic world where everything is moving and turning, one's partner should be like the centre of a wheel which never moves and always remains still.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, World, Should

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• I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

  Wale

  Fall, Men, Virgos

  "Wale Leaves Washington". Interview with Darrell Hartman, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 31, 2009.

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• Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

  Rashi

  Grief, World, Around The World

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• In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Character

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Country, Fall

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• I get really irritated with crap drivers, so the last time I got cross was probably behind the wheel. I'll shout from the safety of my car, with the window up, but if anyone ever got out and challenged me I'd be terrified.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Safety, Car, Lasts

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

  Patrick Wilson

  Vision, Family And Friends, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Fun, People, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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