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Wheels Quotes:

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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

- Ammianus Marcellinus

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Historia, XXVI. 8, 1922.

topic: May, Evening, Wheels, Wheel Of Fortune

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

- Andrea Pirlo

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

topic: Wheels, Invention, Playstation

The world is a wheel always turning.

- Anzia Yezierska

source: Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”

topic: World, Wheels

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

- Douglas Crockford

source: Response to the feed "Scripting News for 12/20/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 20, 2006.

topic: Wheels, Good Things, Reinventing

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

- Ethel M. Dell

source: Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

topic: Wheels, Speed, Enough

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

- Frances E. Willard

source: Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

topic: Wheels

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

- Gerald Massey

source: Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228

topic: Life, Iron, Wheels

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

- Gertrude Bell

source: Gertrude Bell (2014). “The Letters of Gertrude Bell”, p.1761, eStar Books

topic: Nice, Wheels, Helping

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

- Herman Kahn

source: Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.260, Lexington Books

topic: Important, Wheels, Helping, Morale, Dynamism

I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.

- Jason Statham

source: Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

topic: Wheels, Behinds

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

- Justin Berfield

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Spinning, Wheels

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

- Kumail Nanjiani

source: "Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

topic: Games, Wheels, Fortune, Wheel Of Fortune

If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

- Maddox

source: "Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do, and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

topic: World, Wheels, Stills

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

- Marie de France

source: Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

topic: Wheels, Never Forget, Fortune

I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!

- Martha MacIsaac

source: "Talking About Dysfunctional Families with Martha MacIsaac". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. January 8, 2013.

topic: Night, Wheels, Watches, Wheel Of Fortune

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

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

topic: Sky, Bird, Wheels

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

- Anthony Geary

source: "Exclusive: Anthony Geary, Jane Elliot, Kin Shriner Dish the Golden Days of General Hospital". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. April 1, 2013.

topic: Ego, Want, Wheels

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

- Benvenuto Cellini

source: Benvenuto Cellini (2010). “The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXI (in 51 Volumes)”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Feet, Wheels, Virtue, Wheel Of Fortune, Stand Firm

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