Combustion Quotes

49 quotes by 44 authors

Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly… — Richard Ballantine
What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard… — Loren Eiseley
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in… — Cyril Connolly
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation,… — Gaylord Nelson
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited… — Vance Havner
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the… — Bob Brown
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...… — Dorothy Parker
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes… — David Hockney
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying… — Ronald Reagan
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry… — Eric Ries
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. — Nick Hornby
Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts… — Janet Evanovich
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I… — Kate Braverman
If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with… — Rick Riordan
Iâ€™m not dead yet. Itâ€™s all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling,"… — Gary D. Schmidt
As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous… — Alice Munro
Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and… — Eric Jerome Dickey
a combustion engine of ambition and disappointment. — Tina Fey

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