#wheels

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. ↗

— George William Russell

#business #called #engine #first #go

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

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. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ↗

— Dale Turner

#boldness #brakes #lack #make #mistakes

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south. ↗

— Kit Williams

#arm #between #cart #figure #hand

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#course #different #different place #different things #essence

I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#four #get #good #i #like

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. ↗

— Terry Waite

#justice #slowly #sometimes #wheels

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#nature #reinvent #smarter #than #wheels

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#home #just #might #own #redneck