Engine Quotes

462 quotes by 400 authors

At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the… — Rick Riordan
Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close… — Douglas Coupland
I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne — C.E. Murphy
Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car. — Jim Butcher
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat… — Nicole Krauss
I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk… — Sarah Dessen
But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front… — Jodi Picoult
Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he… — John Green
Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes… — Jim Butcher
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps… — Catherynne M. Valente
I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine. — Janet Evanovich
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My… — Kurt Vonnegut
The French say you get hungry when youâ€™re eating, and I get inspired when Iâ€™m working. Itâ€™s my engine — Karl Lagerfeld
A person whose desires and impulses are his ownâ€”are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own… — John Stuart Mill
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop. — Jenny Downham
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
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen
I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she… — Rick Riordan
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt… — Charles Dickens

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