Top 33 Combustion Engine Quotes
#1. If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.
Brock Yates
#2. The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti
#3. Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
Don Tapscott
#4. I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.
Shannon Celebi
#5. I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.
Marco Rubio
#6. [Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.
Rodney Stark
#7. Faerie: where it's only a little weird to realize that my boyfriend is older than the internal combustion engine.
Seanan McGuire
#8. The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
Michael A. Stackpole
#9. It ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
Al Gore
#10. So many of man's inventions - the syringe, the sword, the pen, the gun - were metaphorical cocks, but the internal combustion engine had to have been dreamt up by a man who had looked upon the human heart.
Joe Hill
#11. If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.
Keith Rabois
#12. We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.
Tony Robbins
#13. Wiping grime from his hands, Nick contemplated one of the world's great mysteries: why man had ever combined computers and the internal combustion engine.
Robin Kaye
#14. When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.
Donna Reed
#15. In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.
Anthony Powell
#16. I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
Gaylord Nelson
#17. I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine ... Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.
Bill Ford
#18. I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.
David Walton
#19. Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
Gregory Benford
#20. A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.
Tina Fey
#21. Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.
David Moody
#22. Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#23. [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?
Mark Steyn
#24. Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.
Rachel Weisz
#25. Within a decade, the internal combustion engine automobile is likely to look exactly like what it is - a machine that converts gasoline into much more heat than forward motion, a bizarre antiquity.
Stephen Petranek
#26. I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#27. I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock.
Rafael Sabatini
#28. Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#29. The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an unfortunate downside, namely air pollution so thick that, very soon, sixty-four packs of crayons will include the color Sky Brown
Cuthbert Soup
#30. Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.
Gampopa
#31. The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
Winston Churchill
#32. [R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.
Kato Lomb
#33. It is a fact of life that when you are small, people expect little things from you. But when you've done a great thing, people are amazed.
Ymatruz
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