Engines Quotes - Page 22

• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Military, Flying, Historical

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• I think our Auto Club Ford was very strong all day. I was very happy with the car we had. We were super fast (and) led a lot of laps. Nothing to hang our head down about, that's for sure. We were very proud of that. Doug Yates, thank you so much for the motor. That thing ran the last seven, eight laps with no water in it, just pushing water over 300-degrees. So it's really amazing for those guys. So thank you guys – everyone in the engine shop to get a solid run out here today. I look forward to (getting) back to the race track and try it again.

  Joey Logano

  Running, Strong, Thinking

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• I'm interested in Dathan Ritzenhein's future in the marathon, and I believe that's where we need to address some issues he seems to have. He's had good marathon coaches - both Brad Hudson and me. He's figured out the fueling. He's got this incredible aerobic engine. But something's still wrong.

  Alberto Salazar

  Believe, Issues, Needs

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

  Source: craphound.com

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• With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

  Jordan Peele

  Want, Comedy, Horror

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that. But he was just a human being, at the end of the day.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, Voice, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.ncregister.com

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• You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Innovation, Way

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Prison Population, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

  Ted Cruz

  Opportunity, World, Prosperity

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• The international human rights framework is a vital component and engine for promoting global values. Governments have signed up to this international legal framework and we should hold them accountable, in all circumstances from environmental or labour standards, to trade talks, arms control and security issues as well as other international legal codes.

  Mary Robinson

  Issues, Rights, Government

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

  Monica Ali

  Drama, Book, Trying

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• Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Trying, Invention

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

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• A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

  George Iles

  Science, Keys, Form

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.

  Ninni Holmqvist

  Dream, Fall, Heart

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• As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

  Steven Johnson

  Eye, Ivory Tower, Innovation

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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• If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.

  Jessica Cox

  Crazy, Airplane, Commitment

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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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 old work ethic is dead.

  Lance Morrow

  Country, Work, Ethics

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• The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

  Lee Iacocca

  Oil, Car, House

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.319, Bantam

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• Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Blue, Sailing

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2017

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• One of the things that I think nobody's done yet is really taking advantage of the electric powertrain layout, which of course, means you don't have a gasoline engine in the front and you don't have a gas tank in the rear.

  Henrik Fisker

  Mean, Thinking, Tanks

  "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.

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• You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it more than it will bear. But as to self — that's different. Your mechanism may be bent, Your carbureter gone to grass, Your engine just a rusty mass. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs, And on you skip, and skid, and slide, Without a thought of things inside. What fools indeed we mortals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Dog, Self, Car

  John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

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• [Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that's inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions.

  Paul Laffoley

  Dream, Secret, Half

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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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.

  Bob Hawke

  Real, Thinking, Rooms

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• It's unfair to expect the USTA, just because they make this pot of money, to just snap their fingers and make champions. It's not simple, and anyone who thinks it is hasn't really looked underneath the hood to see how the engine works.

  Jim Courier

  Simple, Thinking, Champion

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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