Motor Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.

  William J. Mitchell

  Independent, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.

  James Hetfield

  Sports, Dream, Art

  "James Hetfield Of Metallica Talks SF Giants, New Music, Custom Cars And More". Interview with Franco Finn, live105.cbslocal.com. May 17, 2014.

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• How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Cowboy, Female, Sailor

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.110, Penguin

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• The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

  Eleanor Clark

  Girl, Eye, Expression

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

  Stevie Smith

  Home, Cat, Sight

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• ... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Art, Writing

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Thinking, Hands, Stones

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Ignorance, President, Apathy

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• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  Rachel Carson

  Home, Circles, Insanity

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Country, Badass, Army

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• Hope is the destination that we seek.
  Love is the road that leads to hope.
  Courage is the motor that drives us.
  We travel out of darkness into faith.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Faith, Darkness

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

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• Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

  Edward Abbey

  Machines, Wilderness, Left Behind

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

  Joe Biden

  Alive, Politics, Osama Bin Laden

  "Who’s Tough Enough?". DNC Speech, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2012.

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

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Racing

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• I was there when I said it.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Said

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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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• 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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