Overshot Water Wheels

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

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

    “Instead of water we got here a draught of beer,... a lumberer’s drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,—which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To see distinctly the machinery—the wheels and pinions—of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)