Engines Quotes - Page 19

• Under the engine cover, no one cares what's in there. Nobody cares.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Care, No One Cares, Nobody Cares

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

  Brian Tracy

  Country, People, Community

  Brian Tracy (2006). “The Psychology of Selling: How to Sell More, Easier, and Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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 love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Lying, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.122, Dial Press

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• Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Pyramids, Pyramid Schemes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

  Henry Rollins

  New York, Cities, World

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• When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

  Bill Gates

  Rip, Car, Different

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• As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

  Charles Babbage

  Guides, Courses

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• Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Discovery, Bayonets, Examination

  John Henry Wigmore, John Theodore McNaughton, Peter Tillers, James Harmon Chadbourn (1974). “Evidence in trials at common law”

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• The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspired, Eating, Hungry

  "Karl Langerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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• I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.

  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Car, Said

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.134, Macmillan

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• When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, Machines, Body

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• 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 are silly.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Silly, Maps, Lines

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.17, Macmillan

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• 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 glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Pigs, Blue

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Expression, Desire

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.59, OUP Oxford

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• It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made... I say, "people," because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Mistake, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• Let's be realistic about that. I think Mercedes when it started the engine [development] didn't have a budget. It spent. And then lots of teams don't and can't. I mean Red Bull, for example, that won four world championships, didn't know the word "budget", and it's a case that it hadn't got the ability to have the engine that it should have had. Because somebody else [Mercedes] had the engine, wouldn't let them have it, because they didn't want competition.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Team, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point.

  Drayton Bird

  Warm

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• Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

  Frank Chodorov

  Pyramids, Steam Engines, States

  "Frank Chodorov: Champion of Liberty" by Aaron Steelman, fee.org. December 1, 1996.

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• And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

  Richard Bach

  Art, Hands, Sculpture

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Engineering, Law

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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• Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn’t there to move your experience, but to move your being into your experience, bringing your being into the physicality of your self.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Self, Movement

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• I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Civilization, Looks

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• Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Evolution, Evolve

  "The Seat of the Soul". Book by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2007.

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• When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Airplane, Flight, Failing

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Nov 21, 2010

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