Piston Quotes

#1. Hunger is the piston of art.

Stephen King

#2. Saylor and Beau worked together not like a piston head turned by a camshaft, but like the torque created from such synchronicity.

Suzanne Cowles

#3. The ass of a man is the piston that drives the world, and you have a good one. In my prime, I would have corked it with my thumb and then eaten you alive. Preferably by the pool of Le Meridien in Monte Carlo, with an admiring audience to applaud my frontside and backside efforts.

Stephen King

#4. Yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah, carburetor, gear ratio, compression, yah-da-yah, piston, plugs, intake, yah-da-yah, on and on and on. That is the romantic face of the classic mode.

Robert M. Pirsig

#5. When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint ... were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

James Agee

#6. The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening of the chapter, a cloud of smoke hides part of the first paragraph.

Italo Calvino

#7. You're cheery, which is important, you're cheeky, which is more important, and you've got a lovely bottom, which is all-important. The ass of a man is the piston that drives the world, and you have a good one.

Stephen King

#8. Without a guiding organization, the energy of the masses would dissipate like steam not enclosed in a piston box. But nevertheless what moves things is not the piston or the box, but the steam.

Leon Trotsky

#9. An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.

David Salsburg

#10. Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

Tori Amos

#11. You been shopping? no i been shopping. well what'd you buy? i bought a piston engine. well how you going to cook it? you don't cook it it's a piston engine! well your not going to eat it raw are you? oh, i never thought of that ...

Graham Chapman

#12. Life is serious but art is fun!

John Irving

#13. I remember looking at the fear in her eyes. How could someone be so cruel? I thought as the hens cried. When will people realize, that other animals have just as much the right as we do.

Zoe Rosenberg

#14. The world was FUBAR now. And if you're not okay with that, you're just a corpse waiting to happen.

Rick Yancey

#15. Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#16. Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

David Mitchell

#17. There are powers in the words. With this you can save lives, but also it's something that can kill.

Yuu Watase

#18. To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#19. Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

Daniel Abraham

#20. I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

Walter Piston

#21. Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

Calvin Coolidge

#22. I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Jane Austen