Quotes for All
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the real and get on the wheel. The wheel becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the I will achieve. All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you’re born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if … Read more
One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, ’tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel. Eugenie de Guerin
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel – even a mighty big wheel – if it’s going too fast. Ethel M. Dell
There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal. Etgar Keret
You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It’s like winter driving in Finland – if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It’s … Read more
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. Errol Flynn
Adults are always telling young people, ‘These are the best years of your life.’ Are they? I don’t know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They’d like to … Read more
If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive … Read more
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness – just a drop of it – does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. Eric Liu
Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night! Enid Blyton