Wheels Quotes - Page 39

• After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Invention, Playstation

  "The Bandinis 2013: an utterly exhaustive review of the Serie A season" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2013.

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• I have dated and have had sex with men and women and have to say that the relationships I have had with certain women have been much more fulfilling, sexually and emotionally, than of those with certain men. I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is. That's what makes my wheels turn.

  Kristanna Loken

  Sex, Men, Energy

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• It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Common, Advantage

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• At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

  Antonio Machado

  Answers, Break, Smallest

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

  Frank Stock

  Funny, Rain, Climbing

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• Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un.

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Taught Us, Water

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• Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to look at the guitar in a different way - and how to tap into that thing inside of me that was already leaning toward improvisation. You learn other players' licks at first; then you take off the training wheels and start using the licks as building blocks to make your own thing. That's how influences work. somewhere in whatever I do, there's a little bit of Hendrix - plus about a hundred others

  Junior Brown

  Music, Block, Teenager

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• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Fall, Fire

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires.

  Fred Upton

  Silver Platter, Needs, Information

  "New NHTSA Administrator Sue Bailey Already in Hot Seat Over Firestone Tire Problems". "Morning News" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2000.

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• Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

  Thomas Brooks

  Religious, Moving, Hypocrite

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.15

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• Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.

  Gerda Lerner

  Struggle, Past, Men

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• A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

  Richard Branson

  People, Cogs, Needs

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• The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa!

  Robert Sobukwe

  Destiny, Glasses, Progress

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• I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

  Jeff Gordon

  Mean, Thinking, Race

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• Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

  Amartya Sen

  Reality, Joy, Suffering

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• Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

  James Connolly

  Betrayal, Mean, Labour Movement

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.275, Pluto Press

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• To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

  Dean Kamen

  Fire, Innovation, Language

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• Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

  Larry Wall

  Unix, Reinvention

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• Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fire, Hot, Genius

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.297

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• Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  "Ivanov". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Life, Light, Darkness

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.24

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• The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

  Harry Belafonte

  Art, Men, Thinking

  New Musical Express Magazine, May 1957.

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• My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Dad, Car, Skins

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• Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia without it and then we'll talk.

  Kevin Hearne

  Ideas, Two, People

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.293, Del Rey

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• So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Goal, Spheres

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.20

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