Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Quotes

Nature, in providing us with combustibles on all sides, has given us the power to produce, at all times and in all places, heat and the impelling power which is the result of it. To develop this power, to appropriate it to our uses, is the object of heat-engines.

Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

Ian Mcewan
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

Gabrielle Union
- Movie
- Black
- Small
The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

Garth Brooks
- People
- Great
- Business
I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

Warren Littlefield
- Up
- Think
- Growing
Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

Hari Kondabolu
- People
- Nature
- Opinion
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Lascelles Abercrombie
- Time
- Work
- May