World Engines

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or engines:

    “There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “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)