Man Diesel Engines

Famous quotes containing the words man and/or engines:

“When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?”
—Russell Hoban (b. 1925)

“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)