Horsepower Quotes

• Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

  Carroll Shelby

  Winning, Race, Car

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• There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

  Carroll Shelby

  Entrepreneur, Enough, Drivers

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• Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Inspire, Cylinders

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• If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

  Mark Donohue

  Two, Car, Black

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• Heart power is better than horsepower.

  Henry John Heinz

  Heart

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• The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

  Warren Buffett

  Self, People, Important

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• Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

  Albie Sachs

  Moving, Two, Soul

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• We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

  Mark Donohue

  Gears, Four, Definitions

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• I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Stars, Thinking, Personality

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• Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

  Carroll Smith

  Winning, Race, Torque

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• There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Horse, Jumping, Light

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• The best investment you can make is in yourself.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Investment Success, Entrepreneur

  "Warren Buffett's 'Secret Millionaire's Club' Live Interview on Squawk Box". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. July 24, 2009.

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• As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Average, Car, Progress

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• Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses.

  David Eugene Edwards

  Song, Horse, Men

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• The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

  Warren Buffett

  Self, Degrees, Want

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.175, John Wiley & Sons

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• Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

  Bryan Callen

  Horse, Car, Guy

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• I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

  Carroll Shelby

  Car, People, Design

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• I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man by will and by intelligence, and the combination of us was almost bound to result in periodic explosions. He and I disagreed politically, very violently, and things would get hectic around the house.

  Richard Boone

  Strong, Dad, Men

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• To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Photography, Mean, Technology

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• My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Two, Feet

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• There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

  George Jones

  Taken, Keys, Half

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.140, Dell

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• When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

  Richard Hammond

  Light, Havens, Accidents

  "Top Gear. Series 9". TV Series, January 28, 2007.

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• Hey,” Shane said from the other side of the bars. “Trade you cigarettes for a chocolate bar.” Funny,” Eve said. She was almost back to her old unGothed self again, though there were still red splotches on her cheeks and around her eyes. “How come you’re always behind bars, troublemaker?” Look who’s talking. I didn’t try to outrun the cops in a hearse.” That hearse had horsepower.” Eve got that moony look in her eyes again. “I love that hearse.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Self, Talking

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.95, Penguin

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• The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

  Aly Khan

  War, Important, Korean

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• Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.

  William J. Clinton

  Kids, Car, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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