Engine Quotes

462 quotes by 400 authors

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles
Small businesses are really the engine in the economy. — Karen Mills
I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car. — Bruce Springsteen
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing,… — Tomas Transtromer
Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer. — Maria Weston Chapman
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming… — J.H. Wyman
In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you. — Sete Gibernau
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in… — Cory Lidle
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be… — Neil Postman
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room. — Ronald Knox
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the… — Michel de Montaigne
The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress. — Bertrand Russell
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
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made… — Augustus William Hare
The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its… — Janet Reno
If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're… — Rafael Benitez
The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine… — Carroll Shelby
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of… — Charles Fort

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