Motor Quotes - Page 10

• The world is super-stupid. You have by far the best designers in America! And you do the most stupid cars in the world! They put billions into their stupid designs for General Motors, Chrysler, Buick, or who knows what. The designers in America must be frustrated. I am not frustrated, because I am not a designer - I am a philosopher, and all philosophers have said for ages that the world around them is stupid.

  Luigi Colani

  Stupid, Car, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It isn't easy for me to have contact with the industry, because it is so outdated. Look at General Motors, look at -Mercedes, look at Chrysler, look at Porsche, look at BMW . . . They are all building cars from yesterday! Nobody has an idea how the car of tomorrow should look. I've built them already. I have the prototypes in my exhibition, but they won't do it.

  Luigi Colani

  Car, Tomorrow, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mom was terrific. I described my mom once. If fear was a color, she was color blind. Nothing frightened her. If I told her that I was going to take over General Motors, she'd say, "You can do it." Just the most preposterous things, ambitious things, she said, "You can do it."

  Les Wexner

  Mom, Ambitious, Blind

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot.

  Shelby Harris

  Motor Vehicles, Attention, Able

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Skills, Oil, Necks

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.399, Vintage Canada

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• We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Past, Car

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Emotional, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Eye, Motor Racing

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• Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Schumacher

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• Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Racing

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• Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Twelve

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• Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Gaps

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• My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Dad, Littles

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• I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.

  Bill Nighy

  Clothes, Want, Suits

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Mother, Lovely, Mouths

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• Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Thinking, Motor Oil, Upset

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• When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

  Henry Ford

  Block, Men, Eight

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• If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Needs, Want

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.

  Jen Lancaster

  Summer, Teenager, Night

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• Dr. Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it can't be that because I didn't eat any cheese last week.

  Daniel Keyes

  Eye, Drs, Body

  "Flowers for Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, April 1959.

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• and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Car, Ribbons

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• The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8

  Sinclair Lewis

  Girl, Witty, Kissing

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• Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.

  James Surowiecki

  Needs, Cyberspace, Should

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• I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Morning, School, Skating

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• Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Finals

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