Cylinders Quotes

• Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

  Paul Cezanne

  Perspective, Sides, Spheres

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• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

  Thomas McGuane

  Suicide, Running, Two

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• You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

  Gary Cole

  Results, Working It, Knows

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• Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Inspire, Horsepower

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• When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

  Henry Ford

  Block, Men, Eight

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• The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

  James Joyce

  Weed, Mouths, Engaged

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.546, First Avenue Editions

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• Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

  Paul Cezanne

  Simple, Wish, May

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• I really try hard to keep a good bead on the pulse of the team. Am I pushing the right buttons? When do I need to be harder on them? When do I need to have a little more fun with them? It's all about timing. The more I can do that the better chance we have for these guys to be hitting on all cylinders and reach their potential.

  Pete Lembo

  Fun, Team, Guy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Jobs, Legacy, Wells

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything is firing on all cylinders for me.

  Rory McIlroy

  Firing

  "Rory McIlroy beats tournament record to win Wells Fargo Championship". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2015.

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• The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

  Archimedes

  Axes, Gravity, Centre

  Archimedes (1912). “The Method of Archimedes, recently discovered by Heiberg: a supplement to the Works of Archimedes, 1897”

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• The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.

  Anaximander

  Distance, Sky, Space

  "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible". The Watchtower, October 1, 1980.

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• The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but "accessory" in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.

  Robert Graves

  War, Order, Long

  Robert Graves, Steven Trout (2008). “Goodbye to all that: and other great war writings”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Couple, Hands, Twists

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Ark angel”, Putnam Juvenile

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• Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

  Paul Cezanne

  Spheres, Cones, Form

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• The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Decision, Challenges, Bishops

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• A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.

  Christopher Walken

  Differences, Missing, Ferrari

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes, Sight

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• We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Blue, Magic

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.64, Penguin

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• The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.

  Heather O'Neill

  Love, Children, Real

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• The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

  James Thurber

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.648, Library of America

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• May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Mean, Men

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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• As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

  David Byrne

  Ephemeral, Music Is, Discs

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed
  ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

  Homer

  Way, Should, Knows

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