The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. — Arnold H. Glasow Copy Share Image
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state… — Julius Sumner Miller Copy Share Image
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. — Fred Shero Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
If you tried to transplant an internal combustion engine and gearbox into another car, you have to bring with it all the… — Chris Harris Copy Share Image
An e-cigarette does not function in manner of a traditional cigarette because it functions electrically rather than via combustion of a material… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took… — Carl Ludwig Copy Share Image
While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane,… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.” — Various attributed sources Copy Share Image
[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. --Arnold H. Glasow — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the… — Bill Ford Copy Share Image
I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
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