The Allegro may have had a strangely square steering wheel and a gearbox that felt, in the words of one owner, "like stirring a bag of marbles with a knitting needle".
I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.
In this task, the subjects were more likely to talk of positive happenings when they were moving marbles upwards, and narrate negative stories when moving marbles downwards.
Carve your name on hearts and not on marbles.
However, the most famous outstanding case of art restitution remains the Elgin marbles in the British Museum in London.
Made out of bottles, beads, marbles, spring-loaded interlocking arcs of rebar and wire, the installation emerges below in a swirling hommage to the ocean, refracted light and the sun.
In one botched effort, a doctor instructs Albert to talk with a mouthful of marbles, a gagging endeavor that might have altered the imminent monarchical succession.