#truck

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#coal #cycle #even #existing #fired

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#college #dropped #enough #go #high

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#between #difference #laughs #man #only

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. ↗

— David Hockney

#had #how #i #interest #music

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#again #anything #come #found #got

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#ago #box #drunk #eve #i

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#bloody #civil #civil war #full #hatred

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#always #churchill #even #had #how

I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#concert #connecticut #drunk #ended #go