Wheels Quotes - Page 27

• As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

  Antony Sher

  Beautiful, Kings, Sunday

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• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

  James Salter

  Dream, Lying, Fall

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

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• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Together, Cogs

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• Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

  Matthew Henry

  Oil, Joy, Obedience

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.2343, Harper Collins

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• Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

  Chris Christie

  Fall, Long, Tunes

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

  Philip Pullman

  War, Book, Technology

  " Philip Pullman declares war against 'stupidity' of library closures" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2011.

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• After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Real, Nice

  "For the love of bicycles: A 2003 interview with Robin Williams". Interview with Michael Aisner, www.velonews.com. 2003.

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• True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Moving, Grace, Would Be

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “The Soul-Winner”, p.8, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Machinery, Providence

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication,inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82”, p.202, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Ideas, Space

  "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency". Nikola Tesla's Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, February 1892.

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• Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

  Theophile Gautier

  Travel, Horse, Moon

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• But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

  George Harrison

  Travel, Pay The Price, Car

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• Revolution means turning the wheel.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Mean, Revolution

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• It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

  Peter Tosh

  Spiritual, Balance, Energy

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• For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.

  Jay Adams

  Fun, Home, Years

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• Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.

  Loretta Chase

  Simple, Men, Order

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• There is no re-inventing the wheel.

  Sean Penn

  Inventing

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• If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

  William Hartnell

  Sky, Bird, Watches

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (1.1, "An Unearthly Child"), 23 November - 14 December, 1963.

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• You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

  Christopher Guest

  Snow, Important, Jeeps

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• I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

  John Mellencamp

  Single, Records, Humans

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• Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

  Marlene Dumas

  Time, Art, Light

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• It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Cycling, Two, People

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• God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Mean, Men

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

  Chris Priestley

  Men, House, Tree

  Chris Priestley (2009). “Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror”, p.9, A&C Black

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