Internal Combustion Quotes

#1. 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

#2. [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

#3. The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

Winston Churchill

#4. 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

#5. We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

Henry Ford II

#6. I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#7. 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

#8. [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Mark Steyn

#9. 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

#10. Today, if nothing else, at least I can incinerate these humans with fire from their internal combustion engines and appease your spirit with their screams.

Reki Kawahara

#11. 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

#12. The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

Glenn Gould

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.

Daniel Yergin

#16. I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

Miranda Richardson

#17. Faerie: where it's only a little weird to realize that my boyfriend is older than the internal combustion engine.

Seanan McGuire

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

Ryan Reynolds

#23. I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

Susan Schneider

#24. You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple
sometimes naive.

Jiang Zemin

#25. I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face ... because I have such a big lung capacity.

Jessica Simpson

#26. If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.

Robert Graves

#27. When the light powerfully shines upon us, the darkness cannot dare to touch us!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors.

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.

Robert Reich

#30. To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.

Robert Burns

#31. Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Warren Buffett

#32. far too many people die with a heart thats gone flat with indiferance, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer amazing oppurtunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

Beth Hoffman

#33. I don't really do a big Saturday supper. I prefer entertaining in the daytime.

Nicholas Haslam

#34. I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.

Shannon Celebi

#35. The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Eleanor Clark

#36. Consistently investigate what gives other people energy. Be the fan that fuels it.

Darren Rowse