Motor Quotes - Page 10

• It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Men, Discipline, Humanity

  "International Futurism in Arts and Literature" by Günter Berghaus, (p. 318), 2000.

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• To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

  Henry Ford

  Ambition, Blood, Steel

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.18, 谷月社

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• Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Swings, Waiting

  Forbes magazine Interview, November 01, 1974.

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• In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, New York, Athlete

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• Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Years, Mankind, Thousand

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• Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Car, Wheels

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• Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

  Carolyn Wells

  Girl, Book, Car

  Carolyn Wells (1915). “The White Alley”

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• Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.

  Anne Sexton

  Fear, Pumps, Fades

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• Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Quality, Hey, Mama

  Song: Ezy Ryder, Album: The Cry of Love, 1971

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• The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

  Rod Stewart

  Girl, Quality, Lasts

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• I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Drinking, Sleep, Oil

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• Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Weather

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• A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

  Elton John

  Couple, Order, Law

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• I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Motor Racing, Important

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• My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.

  John Michael Higgins

  Years, Class, Parent

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Strong, Goal, Path

  "GM CEO To Step Down As Company Posts Profit". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. August 12, 2010.

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• So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure'.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Government, Long, Labels

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

  Nick Park

  Children, Father, Electric Motors

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• I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

  Bernie Mac

  Sports, Hate, Mean

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• Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

  Ed Markey

  Years, Doe, Lasts

  "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Powerful, Real, Book

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• Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

  Bill Berry

  Thinking, Priorities, Brain

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• I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Country, Might, Administration

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• At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Vacation, Car

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