Cylinder Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place…
— Archimedes
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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in…
— Anaximander
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live…
— David Byrne
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The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child…
— Heather O'Neill
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
— Paul Cezanne
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In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well…
— Neil MacGregor
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May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so…
— Paul Cezanne
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America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft…
— Thomas McGuane
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can…
— Paul Cezanne
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed…
— Paul Cezanne
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
— Henry Miller
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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
— James Joyce
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When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block,…
— Henry Ford
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But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my…
— Anthony Horowitz
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I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging…
— Jim Butcher
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The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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You wouldnt happen to know where I could get my hands on a master cylinder for a 1986 Volkswagen Rabbit?
— Jacob Black
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Tis evident, that as common Air when reduc'd to half Its wonted extent, obtained near about twice as forcible a Spring as it had before;…
— Robert Boyle
Who Wrote These Cylinder Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Cylinder Quotes as follows: