Motor Quotes - Page 3

• When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

  Alain Prost

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Simple, Office, Design

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• Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Two, Half

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• [Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market . . . .In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever?

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Country, Car, Competition

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• When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being exposed to every element of danger while you're sitting on a motor -
  that, to me, is freedom.

  Mitch Lucker

  Home, Needs, Withdrawal

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• I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race.

  Sid Watkins

  Race, Racing, Brain

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• Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

  James Hunt

  Swings, Racing, Luck

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• You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Digital, Clock

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• Tombay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Zero, Racing

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• Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Bible, Faith, Mind

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5457, e-artnow

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• Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

  Richard Condon

  Order, Modern Life, Made

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• What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

  Barack Obama

  America, Damn, Be Good

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

  Joan Robinson

  Air, Car, Choices

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press

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• " many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."

  Paul A. Baran

  Independent, Shoes, Corporations

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 4, (p. 84), 1957.

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• This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Motor Vehicles, Rivers

  Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty, February 8, 1965.

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• Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

  John Galsworthy

  Lunch, Owing, Modern

  John Galsworthy (2016). “Swan Song: England Literature”, p.51, 谷月社

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• General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.

  Ralph Nader

  Money, Delaware, Willing

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• I love motor learning because it's very basic and primal. A lot of what I like to learn correlates with the opposite of what gets you laid. I can ride a unicycle and I can juggle. These are unimpressive things to know.

  Demetri Martin

  Opposites, Unicycles, Primal

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

  Stephen Hawking

  Neurons, Disease, Taught

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• The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

  Murray Walker

  Two, Car, Racing

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• I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Mind, Wonder

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• ... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Facts

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• Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

  Murray Walker

  Memories, Racing, Having Fun

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• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

  Charles Kettering

  Feet, Achievement, Boss

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