Not Reinventing The Wheel Quotes & Sayings

When Cecily said she wanted something, it did not express an idle desire but an iron determination. — Cassandra Clare

Your heart gives you your power, Regina. Follow it, fight with it, and you cannot be defeated — Simon Holt

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person. — Mireille Enos

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. — Jimmy Wales

When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light. — Anne Spollen

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet. — Richard Eberhart

People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting. — Linda Evangelista

I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm just making it run without squeaking.

Sunny Anderson, TV Chef — Lexi Dare

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it — Joseph Heller

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects. — Julio Cortazar

While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself. — Nicholas Negroponte

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one. — Douglas Crockford

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director. — Pawel Pawlikowski

There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself. — Jennifer Lawrence

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel. — Steve Krug

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him. — B. J. Palmer

We're not reinventing the wheel. We're just rolling it down our own path. — D.R. Pedraza

Government is not the creator but the creature of human society. The Government has no mission from God to make the community, on the contrary the community is determined by Providence, where it is happily determined for us by far other causes than the meddling of governments - by historical causes in the distant past, by vital ideas, propagated by great individual minds - especially by the church and its doctrines. The only communities which have had their characters manufactured for them by governments have had a villainously bad character. Noble races make their governments. Ignoble ones are made by them. The — Clyde N. Wilson

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever. — F. Lee Bailey

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. — Jonathan Gilbert

Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies? — William Sears

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone