Wheel Quotes
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Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.
lucio russo— 4.7, "Use of Natural Power", p. 126
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
solomon— Ecclesiastes 12:6 (KJV)
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the disease.
Mahatma Gandhi— Young India, 1927
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
sarada devi— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 297.
The fundamental inability to grasp the fact that real leadership is accepting that you are merely another cog in the wheel has derailed many careers and deranged many managers.
damien richardson— City Edition, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p.5.
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long before the wheel When the green dark forest was too silent to be real... Oh! The song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won On the mountain tops we stand All the world at our command We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
gordon lightfoot— Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists YouTube video
Let Sporus tremble'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope— 1735 Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.305-8.
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 was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
mario andretti— Mario Andretti - Began Racing In Italy. sports.jrank.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-12..
I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill. I could not hear the brook flow, the noisy wheel was still.
houghton, richard monckton milnes, 1st baron hough— The Brookside.
You are the architect of your own destiny ; you are the master of your own fate ; you are behind the steering wheel of your life . There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
brian tracy— The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires (2001), Conclusion : Success Is Predictable, p. 63
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
thomas bailey aldrich— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Two Moods.
The field of mechanical engineering is frankly as old as human life itself. Fire, the wheel, the printing press, and many of the life- changing discoveries and inventions of the past few centuries are simply applications of mechanical engineering in order to solve everyday problems.
— ?Dr. Vook Ph.D and Charles River Editors (2011) Mechanical Engineering 101: The TextVook
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill: I could not hear the brook flow. The noisy wheel was still.
— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, The Brookside.
She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune … and fears no manner of ill because she means none.
thomas overbury— Thomas Overbury, A Fair and Happy Milkmaid.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, 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— 1785 The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34-9.
The colour of my soul is iron-greyand sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Regis Debray— 1894 Letter.
The hope of a positive expected gain lies in detecting a wheel with sufficient bias.
richard arnold epstein— Chapter Four, Coins, Wheels, And Oddments, p. 113
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens
william carlos williams— "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel? But I need, now as then, Thee, God, who mouldest men.
Robert Browning— Line 180. (Rabbi Ben Ezra)
Treating the sword blade the same as the staff, Turning the chariot wheel into chaff. Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall, Building a sand pile to counter each fall. Yielding to nothing not even the rose, The dust has its reasons wherever goes.
nathalia crane— "The Dust" (Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928))
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— J 146 (Notebook J (1789))
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
George Canning— The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
'Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat; There's a human look in its swelling breast, And the gentle curve of its lowly crest; And I often stop with the fear I feel He runs so close to the rapid wheel.
nathaniel parker willis— Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Belfry Pigeon; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.
It's surely summer, for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird rare quicken and wheel and thicken.
— Christina G. Rossetti, A Bird Song, Stanza 2.
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axletree; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 Act III, Scene I
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
— Charles Cowden Clarke, Sonnet, The Course of Time.
"Let's face it: there are few things in this world more stupid than dancing. Except break dancing, which pirates and lumber jacks would agree is awesome. Other than that, dancing makes me envy cripples." "If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel."
— Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do, and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women.
Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealist.
— Dong Kingman, Twenty-two Famous Painters and Illustrators Tell How They Work (1964)
