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Quotes About Engine

The roar of an engine blasted from his left—and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with flame decals jumped the sidewalk in front of him. A small crowd of travelers scattered. "How do you say, 'You jerk!' in Turkish?" Jake asked. "Erasmus!" Dan cried with relief. Jake balled his fist angrily and shouted, "Erasmus!"
~ Peter Lerangis
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...
~ Peter Prange
Nobody used an industrial vortex engine to run kitchen appliances.
~ Peter Watts
When I was a teenager in Accomack County, the class I most enjoyed was a vocational skills course on small engine repair.
~ Ralph Northam
was very attracted to the hardness of Olga,' she said, 'to the hardness of her life. When she spoke about her relationship with her husband it was as though she were speaking about the parts of an engine, explaining how they worked or did not work.
~ Rachel Cusk
Boston is the engine of the state's economy.
~ Thomas Menino
If a car hasn't been driven for a long time and you take it out in the summer, adding some coolant will prevent the radiator from overheating.
~ Edd China
The heroic working class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, holding aloft the banner of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, should become the engine propelling the masses forward on the general onward march and the example for all other members of society to follow in stepping up the building of a powerful socialist country.
~ Kim Jong-un
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.
~ Walter Raleigh
JAMES AND THE TROUBLE WITH TREES Thomas the Tank Engine had been working in the coal yards all day.
~ Wilbert Awdry
In flight a bumblebee flaps its wings 200 times per second (which equals 12,000 rpm), roughly equivalent to the speed of a high-revving motorbike engine.
~ Dave Goulson
You might be surprised to learn that a yo-yo controlled by 1992 World Champion Dale Oliver was actually clocked at a blistering 14,300 revolutions per minute (rpm). Conversely, the Hornet plods along at a slower 2200 rpm. This is the same aircraft engine, however, that catapulted legendary aviator Roscoe Turner to victory in his Hornet-powered Wedell-Turner racer during the 1934 Thompson Trophy Race. During this race, Turner was able to sustain speeds in excess of 290 mph.
~ Dave Prochnow
Krugle-like search engine
~ Douglas Preston
The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe perceived that Ladislaus Malinowski was one of Elvira's heroes. "Well," he thought to himself, "better than one of those pop singers or crooners or long-haired Beatles or whatever they called themselves." Luscombe was old-fashioned in his views of young men.
~ Agatha Christie
His Vengeance is an insatiable engine fueled by burning wrath generating a boundless galactic nightmare
~ Alan Grant
Information tech in the era of the personal computer and network is today's equivalent of a Love Bug that not only works but creates a new image of work that allows corporate and other organizational cultures to imagine a cool new vision of themselves. Information technology, in other words, is an institutional desiring engine.
~ Alan Liu
It's one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.
~ Alastair Reynolds
The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
~ Larry Dixon
A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.
~ Ray Bottenberg
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
The cats are murdering sleep, the wall rumbling with their engine purrs -prut prut prut as they snore their way to oblivion.
~ Kate Atkinson
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
~ William Osler
Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.
~ Janet Evanovich
Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.
~ Terry Gross