Wheelwright Quotes

#1. Because I was a Wheelwright-and, therefore, a New England snob-I'd assumed that Phoenix was largely composed of Mormons and Baptists and Republicans;

John Irving

#2. Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.

Jimmy Page

#3. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Katherine Mansfield

#4. One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Giorgio De Chirico

#5. I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Alison Pill

#6. It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

Jordan Dane

#7. The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Max Ernst

#8. I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
[Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest, February 1976)]

Ray Bradbury

#9. At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

Zach Galligan

#11. A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Solomon

#12. Let every man sing his own song in life.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#13. Grant leaned forward, covering the short distance between them so that their lips were a fraction apart. His warm breath tickled her face, making heat pool between her legs.

"I don't want to take advantage of you," he said so softly it took a moment for her to register his words.

Katie Reus

#14. The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

Massimo Vignelli

#15. Help me reach a friend in darkness; Help me guide him through the night. Help me show thy path to glory By the Spirit's holy light ...

Lorin F. Wheelwright