Escapement Wheel Quotes & Sayings

I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it. — Lauren Potter

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily. — Rachel Zoe

Even natural languages have personalities. 'Escapement' is the name of a device, a toothed wheel, that controls the motion of the hands of the clock. The word has connotations of gaining freedom. The German equivalent is 'Hemmung.' It means 'restraint,' and also, 'inhibition.' It conjures up images of of losing freedom. In describing a presumably emotionally neutral gadget, the two languages perceive in its functions two diametrically opposite states of human condition. — J.T. Fraser

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done. — Tim Kaine

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god. — Hippocrates

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer. — Sepp Blatter

So I told him his bread was ugly, and he called me a dough diva. A dough diva. Of all the nerve! We're going out on Saturday. — Sarah Addison Allen

Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is. — Chico Buarque

I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me. — Donna Air

If it was fast for you, you haven't seen me before. — Waheed Ibne Musa

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic. — Brian Chippendale