Overshot Water Wheels

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

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

    It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile! He rounded this water with his hand, deepened and clarified it in his thought, and in his will bequeathed it to Concord. I see by its face that it is visited by the same reflection; and I can almost say, Walden, is it you?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The jeweled stripes on the window ran straight down when the train stopped and got more and more oblique as it speeded up. The wheels rumbled in her head, saying Man-hattan Tran-sfer Man-hattan Tran-sfer.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)