Invention Of The Wheel Quotes

#1. In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#2. Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design ... The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Dave Barry

#5. Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Susan B. Anthony

#6. After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

Andrea Pirlo

#7. Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

Steve Krug

#8. War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Patrick Ness

#9. I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

Courteney Cox

#10. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Eric Hoffer

#11. of the day she was tiring of Sidney's seclusion.

Kathryn B. Butler

#12. Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Susan L. Taylor

#13. Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?

James Joyce

#14. All the time I've knowed you, Jack, you kept the door to that heart of yers locked up tight an the key hid away. Looks like she found it.
He says nothing. Molly waits. Then:
Keys ain't her style, he says. She kicked the door down.

Moira Young

#15. Grover shuddered. "Satyrs hate going underground. No searcher would ever try going in that place. No flowers. No sunshine. No coffee shops!

Rick Riordan

#16. The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Robert Morley

#17. My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

Tatiana Maslany

#18. Aspire to be more than your circumstances

Anissa Clay