Archimedes
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer
"The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis."
Cylinders quotes
Cylinders
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Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed."
Gary Cole
Actor
"You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders."
Neil Gaiman
Author
"It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press."
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"The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa."
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"This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!"
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