The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

- Heinz Guderian

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

- Mikhail Kalashnikov

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

- Marshall McLuhan

Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

- Li Keqiang

I've got a quad bike, which I've raced against neighbours. You could give me a go-kart with a lawnmower engine - I'd still have fun. I like jet skis, speedboats, all the boys' toys.

- Lee Pearson

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

- Larry Page

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

- Kit Williams

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

- Karen Mills

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

- Henry Rollins

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

- Henry Miller

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

- Ada Lovelace

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

- Frank Whittle

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

- Elvis Presley

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

- Dana Brunetti

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

- Dwayne Johnson

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

- Dane Cook

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

- Alan Furst

Bravery is the engine of change.

- Aisha Tyler

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

- Annie Dillard

IT companies in Bangalore are a reliable engine of development for India.

- Angela Merkel