Crankcase Quotes

#1. What kind of performance would your car deliver if every morning before you left for work you scooped up a double handful of dirt and put it into your crankcase? That fine engine would soon be a mess, unable to do what you want it to do.

David J. Schwartz

#2. Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

Cornelius Plantinga

#3. The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

E.B. White

#4. Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

Rajneesh

#5. Descartes was not interested in probabilities. He wanted absolute certainty. He had to be sure that indubitable knowledge, immune from skeptical attack, was possible.

Steven Nadler

#6. Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

Dominique Bouhours

#7. I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

Rachel Zoe

#8. A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .

Linda Wisdom

#9. A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Bainbridge Colby

#10. I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.

Ali Liebegott

#11. I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

Mika.

#12. This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

Bob Graham

#13. Did I really want to call myself Swiss if it meant shutting the door on less "perfect" residents?

Clare O'Dea

#14. Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

Ibn Majah