Air Breathing Engines

Famous quotes containing the words air, breathing and/or engines:

“... in this air of withering sweetness ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Nobody, but nobody, is going to stop breathing on me.”
—Virginia Apgar (1909–1974)

“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 (b. 1939)