Quotes About Horsepower

#1. And this was how it started: Nose up to the light. Meet the driver's eyes. Shut off the air-co to give the car a few extra horsepower. Rev the engine. Smile like danger.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.

Cynthia Ozick

#3. Now that she's at one with herself and the world she can work my brain over with high horsepower energy.

Jim Harrison

#4. Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Carroll Shelby

#5. I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

Katharine Hepburn

#6. Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

Daven Anderson

#7. Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

Albie Sachs

#8. If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

Mark Donohue

#9. An average horse can produce only about half a horsepower for any extended period.

David E. Nye

#10. a huddle of robot sheep bleating their terror with mechanical lungs of a hundred horsepower.

Sinclair Lewis

#11. They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car, and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower!

John Green

#12. We're far from having too much horsepower ... my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

Mark Donohue

#13. Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

Gina McKnight

#14. Others need more physical horsepower. Some need very little of either.

David Allen

#15. Heart power is better than horsepower.

Henry John Heinz

#16. Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Henry Miller

#17. I love horsepower.

Carroll Shelby

#18. Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

Bryan Callen

#19. All horsepower corrupts.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#20. Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

Aly Khan

#22. Could you boil tea if you just stirred it hard enough? No. The first problem is power. The amount of power in question, 700 watts, is about a horsepower, so if you want to boil tea in two minutes, you'll need at least one horse to stir it hard enough.

Randall Munroe

#23. As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

Sydney J. Harris

#24. In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.

Ernst Junger

#25. When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.

Ezra Klein

#26. Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Tim Fargo

#27. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

John Green

#28. Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

Carroll Smith

#29. I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

Carroll Shelby

#30. Heart power is stronger than horsepower.

Henry J. Heinz

#31. There is never enough horsepower ... just not enough traction.

Carroll Shelby

#32. There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

George Jones

#33. in order to get to the next level of whatever you're doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been. You cannot get to the next phase of a project without a grander mind-set, more acceleration, and extra horsepower.

Grant Cardone

#34. When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

Richard Hammond