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Quotes About Engine

You guys, you people, you all run on one big engine, all the same for everybody, the whole world over. Know the name of that engine? Love? she speculated. Good try but completely wrong, sorry. The name of the engine is story... If you want to get fancy, we could use the work narrative... And what does a narrative need? The presence of evil, that's what. Doity Toid and the Eel
~ Unknown
You guys, you people, you all run on one big engine, all the same for everybody, the whole world over. Know the name of that engine? Love? she speculated. Good try, but completely wrong, sorry. The name of the engine is story...If you want to get fancy, we could use the word narrative...And what does narrative need? The presence of evil, that's what. Doity Toid and the Eel
~ Unknown
She shot him a warm smile as she stopped the car and shut off the engine. "It's all the Planet of the Apes pictures, all eleven of them; they run from 7:30 P.M. all the way through to 8 A.M. tomorrow morning.
~ Philip K. Dick
It was a bright red TVR Griffith, with a five litre V8 engine, and an exhaust note that could have been heard in Peking. It fell some way short of being the ideal car for a discreet surveillance operation
~ Hugh Laurie
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
~ Cory Lidle
The experience of riding an electric bike is very different. Because there was no engine noise and no big vibration coming from the bike, it wasn't as stressful.
~ Charley Boorman
I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled...
~ Jim Butcher
There was a low growling sound and the Munstermobile came gliding up out of the parking garage, dripping water from its gleaming surface like some lantern-eyed leviathan rising from the depths. There were still a few dents and dings in it, but the broken glass had all been replaced, and the engine sounded fine. Okay, I'm not like a car fanatic or anything - but the guitar riff from Bad to the Bone started playing in my head.
~ Jim Butcher
I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
~ Dallas Willard
Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.
~ Phillip C. McGraw
An outboard racer. The drive shaft pulled up and secured.
~ Dean Koontz
The engine has been removed.
~ Dean Koontz
I don't think you need to worry about me marrying Jack," she assured him. He parked at the curb and cut the engine and then said the oddest thing. "Good." Good? He didn't want her to remarry? What a strange reaction, considering that he'd been married to Marge for fourteen years.
~ Debbie Macomber
When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside—jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We
~ Denis Johnson
Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.
~ Ilona Andrews
great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.
~ Paul Cookson
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.
~ Janet Finch
The Explanatory Paragraph Is Where Your SEO Will Come From
~ Donald Miller
There's a rattle of chains and a clatter from the donkeyengine where a tall man in blue overalls stands at a lever in the middle of a cloud of steam that wraps round your face like a wet towel.
~ John Dos Passos
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
~ Stendhal
My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.
~ David Naylor
The more developers you have, the more products you can build. Essentially, recruiting is the engine that drives distribution
~ Marc Benioff
It was an odd being which rose from Felix and through him. It was, in fact, a remarkable creature. It was a wartime creature and a surviving creature. A killing creature. The Engine, Felix thought. It's not me. It's my Engine. It will work when I cannot. It will examine and determine and choose and, at last, act. It will do all this while I cower inside.
~ John Steakley