Quotes About Engine

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.

if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up.

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

At any rate, it was this same less-than-gainly driver who made an announcement to the passengers. "Wal haow yew like thet?" rang his dark New England accent. "Engine problems, folks. Saounds like the manifold." (I hadn't a clue as to what a manifold

Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what's lurking in the sea - just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.

The source of power in Papin's engine wasn't steam but the weight of the atmosphere acting on the vacuum the condensing steam left behind. So increasing the power of his engine required using a larger volume of steam in larger cylinders that could entrain a larger column of atmosphere. At the time, no one knew how to manufacture such large-scale machinery. Papin hoped his new engine might be a major inducement to its development.

The internal combustion engine evolved from the steam engine. Both use hot gases expanding within an enclosed cylinder to supply power. The gas in a steam engine is steam, generated externally by heating water in a boiler and introduced through a valve into the cylinder, where it expands and pushes on a piston connected to a rod that transfers the motion outside the engine to turn a pair of wheels.

At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right! yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. Everybody get back on board!

courtliness being the gear that his engine idled in.

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

Newcomen spent ten years experimenting with solutions to the problem of maintaining a regular and stable motion in his engine. None of his solutions was more innovative than his so-called plug rod.

The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.

John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.

Now, here's the key thing you need to know about mitochondria: Like any other sort of engine, they generate energy, but they also generate waste. However, unlike your car engine, which turns gasoline into energy while creating smog, the mitochondria turn food into energy while creating something called free radicals.