Motor Quotes - Page 13

• And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

  Tim Holden

  Motor Vehicles, Oil, Half

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• Look up there! That's the sky!

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Sky

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• Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Buttons

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• And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Car

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• And there's the man in the green flag!

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Men, Motor Racing

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• That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Years

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• And he's lost both right front tires.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Tire

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• And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Car

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• As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Hypocrite, Caring

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• Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors.

  Robert James Thomson

  Air, Should Have, Snow

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Thinking, Benefits, Littles

  Raymond Loewy (2002). “Never Leave Well Enough Alone”, p.187, JHU Press

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• I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

  Ralph Nader

  Cities, People, Doe

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• In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'

  Colin Angle

  Support, Robots, Lines

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

  William James

  Eye, Waste, Flow

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.

  David Maraniss

  Cities, Dancing, Littles

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, Dad, Car

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Names, Choices

  "What Warren thinks". Interview with Nicholas Varchaver, archive.fortune.com. April 14, 2008.

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• If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

  Mitt Romney

  Goodbye, Jobs, Suicidal

  "Let Detroit go bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• I can't believe it. Two years ago I was here as a visitor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and he invited me to come and stay in his motor home. That's the only other time I've been to victory lane.

  Denny Hamlin

  Believe, Home, Two

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• We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

  Richard Prince

  Art, Dangerous, Impulse

  Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press

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• The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

  Bell Hooks

  Wall, Fate, White

  Source: nefac.net

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• To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.

  Brenda Ueland

  Morning, Horse, Jobs

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• Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Book, Character, Men

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.133, Read Books Ltd

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• The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Jobs, Organization

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