Best Horsepower Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“I love the wheels, I mean steering wheel.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Who needs horsepower when you've got manpower?”

Manpower Horsepower

Book:Quote: +/-

Source: Quote: +/-

“Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races”

Winning Race Car Sells Horsepower Torque

Author:Carroll Shelby

“There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.”

Enough Entrepreneur Drivers Traction Horsepower

Author:Carroll Shelby

“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.”

People Knows Ends Together Desire Results Car Design Built Competition Designer End Results Horsepower

Author:Carroll Shelby

“Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.”

Winning Race Sells Motor Horsepower Torque

Author:Carroll Smith

“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.”

Known Progress Modern Car Average Speed Traffic Modern Life Automobile Congestion Horsepower

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.”

People Ifs Needs Use Kids Used Decision Economic Car Building Amount Behavior Gas Vehicle Irresponsible Hybrid Gasoline Suvs Horsepower

Author:William J. Clinton

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

Important War Shows Conflict Majors Korean Korean War Manpower Horsepower

Author:Aly Khan

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

Ifs Thinking Actors Stars Personality Good Actors Horsepower

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.”

“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.”

Light Havens Accidents Horsepower

Author:Richard Hammond

“Hey,” Shane said from the other side of the bars. “Trade you cigarettes for a chocolate bar.” Funny,” Eve said. She was almost back to her old unGothed self again, though there were still red splotches on her cheeks and around her eyes. “How come you’re always behind bars, troublemaker?” Look who’s talking. I didn’t try to outrun the cops in a hearse.” That hearse had horsepower.” Eve got that moony look in her eyes again. “I love that hearse.”

Trying Looks Said Stills Self Eye Sides Behinds Talking Red Trade Bars Hey Chocolate Cheeks Cop Cigarette Her Eyes Shane Outrun Troublemaker Horsepower Chocolate Bars

Book:Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires

“All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.”

Ifs Littles I Can Whole Language Force Bits My Own Clean Average Track Educated Assumption Suspects Angle Horsepower

Book:Equus

Source: Equus

“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!”

Given Justice Car Mark Beast Necks Graduation Wretched Ceilings Mock Cain Albatross Horsepower Minivans

Author:John Green

“My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!”

Two Sometimes Earth Left Space Feet Minutes Lows Distance Senses Flight Aviation Motor Great Aviation Vertical Horsepower

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Ifs Two Enough Next Black Car Corners Zone Racing Automobile Exit Stripes Auto Racing Funny Racing Motorsports Horsepower

Author:Mark Donohue

“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.”

Want Shows Guy Car Picks Horse Macho Horsepower

Author:Bryan Callen

“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.”

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Book:I Lived to Tell It All

Source: I Lived to Tell It All

“Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses.”

People Men Firsts Wells Song Black Wife Fronts Band Singing Decided Horse Folks Traditional Pulling Heroin Cemetery Caskets Folk Songs Horsepower

Author:David Eugene Edwards

“I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man by will and by intelligence, and the combination of us was almost bound to result in periodic explosions. He and I disagreed politically, very violently, and things would get hectic around the house.”

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Author:Richard Boone

“The best investment you can make is in yourself.”

Inspirational Entrepreneur Investment Best Investment Investment Success Invest In Yourself Horsepower

Author:Warren Buffett

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

Too Much Four Definitions Wheels Spinning Gears Horsepower

Author:Mark Donohue

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.”

People Want Persons Important Self Degrees Investment Enormous Realization Assets Exceed Output Horsepower

Author:Warren Buffett

“The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be”

Want Persons Self Degrees Enormous Assets Horsepower

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.”

Light Millions Economy Car Fronts Red Standing Horse Down And Engines Efficiency Jumping Up And Down Red Lights Horsepower

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Two Soul Enough Body Moving Hundred Driving My Soul Forty Horsepower

Author:Albie Sachs

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