Engine Quotes

462 quotes by 400 authors

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train,… — Don Van Vliet
If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a… — Ayelet Waldman
You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush.… — Helen Fisher
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine… — Douglas Rushkoff
Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself… — Douglas Rushkoff
America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a… — Thomas Friedman
Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently… — Mark Helprin
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. — Stanley Kunitz
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may… — James M. Barrie
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and… — Stephen Fry
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It… — Haruki Murakami
Industrial manâ€”a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should… — Aldous Huxley
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
I donâ€™t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, â€˜Keep going, someone must be on… — George S. Patton
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with… — Douglas Adams
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately… — James Gleick
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it… — Charles de Lint

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