“ I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 425
“ It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 1.9K
“ No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a… factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television. ”
- Gale Gordon- Copy
- 604
“ The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. ”
- Henry Wheeler Shaw- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ”
- Aldo Leopold- Copy
- 2K
“ The world is a wheel always turning," philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. ”
- Anzia Yezierska- Copy
- 296
“ A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, "I shall today be uppermost.". ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Wire-draw his skin, spin all his nerves like hair,And work his tortur'd flesh as thin as flame. ”
- Nathaniel Lee- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. ”
- Penelope Lively- Copy
- 1.1K
“ There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
- 4K
“ Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 3K
“ All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Be damn sure before you get off the ferris wheel, because there are twenty-two perky and ruthless women waiting to get on. ”
- Kim Cattrall- Copy
- 330
“ Industrial man — a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you. ”
- Heather Williams- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The word "revolution" itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the "revolution" of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the "revolving door" of a politics which has "liberated" women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
- 1.9K
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