Engines Quote by R. G. LeTourneau Download Open image “Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.” — R. G. LeTourneau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Engines Finished Poor Running Steam Steam engines
The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most… — O. Winston Link Copy Share Image
“A cross-section of Watt’s steam engine, the machine that heralded the first industrial revolution. The real benefits of the improved steam engine didn’t take… — Stefan Heck Copy Share Image
You can't build an engine that's just good for one type of game anymore. The economics don't work. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
“The idea of gas engines was by no means new, but this was the first time that a really serious effort had been made… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine… — Masahiro Sakurai Copy Share Image
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience. — R. G. LeTourneau Copy Share Image
I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving… — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
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… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon. — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation. — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image