Motor Quotes

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Barbara Johnson

  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

  Lewis Mumford

  Cities, Car, Lovers

  "My Works and Days". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1979.

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• Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

  Bill Gothard

  Gears, Stripping, Feels

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• What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Long, Giving, Car

  The Apple Cart (1930) act 1

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• It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

  Nikola Tesla

  Memorable, Two, Discovery

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• One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

  Erich Warsitz

  Airplane, Electric Motors, Safety

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• Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

  Edgar Guest

  Nature, Bird, Care

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• Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running.  How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Ordinary, Tools

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• The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

  Ayn Rand

  Airplane, Artist, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.72, Penguin

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• I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Racing

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• Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Twenties

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• I was there when I said it.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Said

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• The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Circuits

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• Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Two

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• And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Race

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• Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Eye, Motor Racing

  "The final pit stop". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2000.

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• I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Kind

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• Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Hills

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• And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Car

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• And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Hills

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• And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Champion

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• It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Lap

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• Let's stop the startwatch.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Racing

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• As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Significant Things

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• Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Courses

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