"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine." — Henry Miller

More Cylinder Quotes

This quote is filed under Cylinder Quotes, one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever… — Ernest K. Gann
• Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after… — Archimedes
• The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But… — Anaximander
• As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign… — David Byrne
• The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't… — Heather O'Neill
• Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. — Paul Cezanne
• In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of… — Neil MacGregor
• May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything… — Paul Cezanne
• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken… — Thomas McGuane
• Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple… — Paul Cezanne
• Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object… — Paul Cezanne
• The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed. — James Joyce

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