Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.

Women are wired to do more and different things because of their lack of ego

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve "Sometimes you're my love muffin.

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.