Wheel Quotes - page 11

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well. (John Barrasso)
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe that clothes should make a woman feel beautiful. But sometimes it's the little things like cut and fit and sex appeal that make a large impact. View quote
Joseph Altuzarra
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand. View quote
Juan Manuel Fangio
The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out. View quote
Mark Zupan
Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell. View quote
Adam Green
If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's. View quote
Helmut Lang
Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. View quote
Jonathan Gilbert
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.' View quote
Kris Holden-Ried
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio. View quote
Naveen Jain
I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out. View quote
Nelly
I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it. (Patricia Briggs)
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. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions. View quote
Roland Gift
At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel. View quote
Randeep Hooda
Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time. View quote
Shanola Hampton
I think it's very important to feed the body what it craves and not be in your head about it, panicking, carrying around some calorie-counting wheel in your bag or something equally absurd. I'm really not a fan of that at all. View quote
Tracy Anderson
She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel. View quote
Vincent Canby
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. View quote
Vic Gold
For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like, 'How do I make this film?' That's part of the pleasure, and that's why I'm not a normal professional director. View quote
Pawel Pawlikowski
[re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal. View quote
John Updike
But now was turning my desire and will, Even as a wheel that equally is moved, The Love which moves the sun and the other stars. (Dante Alighieri)
Millions of mind guerrillas Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel. View quote
John Lennon
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes. View quote
Umberto Eco
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the par. View quote
Truman Capote