Wheels Quotes

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. (Leo Tolstoy)
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. View quote
Leon Trotsky
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. View quote
George William Russell
The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. View quote
John Dryden
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. View quote
William Faulkner
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. View quote
Brian Tracy
Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus. View quote
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. View quote
Dante Alighieri
It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels. View quote
Jim Butcher
Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. (William Carlos Williams)
I really enjoy it -- it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it. View quote
Mike Shinoda
[partition of Ireland], ... 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. View quote
James Connolly
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. View quote
Ouida
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare. View quote
Leon Uris
White: I long for Darkness. I pray for death, real death. And if I thought that in death I would meet the people I knew in life, I don't know what I would do. That would be the ultimate horror, the ultimate nightmare. If I thought I was gonna meet my mother again an' start all of that over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to... that would be the final nightmare. Goddamn Kafka on wheels. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A business with a income at its heels, furnishes always oil for its own wheels. View quote
William Cowper
Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy. View quote
Jackson Browne
You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels. View quote
Dylan Moran
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister. (William Faulkner)
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. View quote
Anton Chekhov
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. View quote
Mario Savio
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
Dryden's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge