Top 170 Wheel Quotes

I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend’s mom’s car out for a joyride, and I actually managed to hit somebody else’s car. No one was hurt, but needless to say, I didn’t get behind the wheel again until I had my driver’s license.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read – anything from ‘Dragonlance,’ when I was 12, to ‘The Wheel of Time’ and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did ‘Game of Thrones.’

I just was fortunate enough to be talented at what I was watching my brother do. It’s great that it worked out that way; I might have been wasting a lot of time saying that’s what I want to be, but when I got behind the wheel I had the ability.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I’m a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult – it’s the beast that must be fed. There’s this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it’s enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

When I heard ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel,’ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

You know, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and my parents had spent a lifetime not making any noise, and I was like, what happens if I do this? What happens if I rock this? What then, you know? Will anybody listen?

I would like to direct. I am also happy helping other directors realise their vision. I am happy being a cog in a wheel.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.

I’m smart enough to know I shouldn’t be behind the wheel.

The wheel goes round and round and comes back, and opportunities are given again. You just have to remember that.

I used to have a four wheel drive truck, but I like small sports cars.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel, I’m just coming out and playing my game.

You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?

I feel that I’m in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.

Don’t be surprised at Fortune’s turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

I was in this hamster wheel of being famous for being famous, much like a reality star. You would put me on a talkshow, I would say outrageous things. I was just perpetuating myself as a celebrity, and I found that really empty.

As an international cricketer, you have to keep reinventing the wheel, being consistent is part of it.

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future… A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.

McDonald’s revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.

When I’ve tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual’s exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.

Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you’d think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.

They have the big ferris wheel and we’ve been out of town for two months, so he just was like, ‘Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don’t care if you have a movie coming out and all that.’ He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

I like a person that’s a little crazy and demanding, but I also like a woman that knows how to let me drive and then knows when to take the wheel. I may have a down day, and I need someone to be there for me as I would be there for them.

You know it’s important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

Anyone can take the wheel of the ship in calm water but it’s not so easy when it’s not calm water. You can’t just enjoy the good times, you have to be resilient in the tough times.

Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.

I’m learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It’s not an economical way to work. A driver would call it ‘white-knuckling.’ If you’re holding on to the wheel so tightly, it’s gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.

I can’t understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it’s great, but I don’t know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we’re talking about, the ever turning wheel.

We humans are great at creating tools with unforeseen consequences. For instance, when we invented the wheel, we had no way of knowing we were also laying the foundations for the TV show ‘Top Gear.’

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

Everything in my house has had to be specially adapted, from the height of the bed to the positioning of doorknobs. Even my Rolls Royce had special stacked pedals and an extra-low steering wheel.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you’ve got another show to do – whatever moment of success or happiness you have you’ve got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

It’s hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But ‘Rookie Blue’ has a pure emotional center that’s not cynical.

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I’m reinventing the wheel. It’s like, ‘How do I make this film?’ That’s part of the pleasure, and that’s why I’m not a normal professional director.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars – maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

I always wanted a cheese wheel.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

The best thing about driving supercars is the way it makes me feel. It’s so much fun that I often find myself laughing behind the wheel.

It’s an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel – it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.