Engine Quotes

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

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.