Overshot Water Wheels

Famous quotes containing the words overshot, water and/or wheels:

    With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The senseless drowned
    Have faces nobody would care to see,
    But water loves those gradual erasures
    Of flesh and shoreline, greenery and glass,
    Howard Moss (b. 1922)

    no little brass rollers
    and small easy wheels on the bottom—
    my townspeople what are you thinking of!
    A rough plain hearse then
    with gilt wheels and no top at all.
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)