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Engines Quote by Mary Quant

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“The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.”

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I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.

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Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.

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As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

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I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

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I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'

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I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.

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I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

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One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

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I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump,…

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I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

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I have been on a diet since 1962.

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Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

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I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play…

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Honor commerce as the engine of change.

William McDonough

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I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving…

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's…

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I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third…

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Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

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Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

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Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

Barry Goldwater

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The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine…

Charles Babbage

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You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine…

Elizabeth Kolbert

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Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

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