Iron Wheel

Famous quotes containing the words iron wheel, iron and/or wheel:

    Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me, they’re gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
    Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
    John Huston (1906–1987)

    You do me wrong to take me out o’ th’ grave:
    Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound
    Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
    Do scald like molten lead.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)