Motor Quotes - Page 6

• The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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• I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Snakes, Words Of Wisdom

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• Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

  James Hunt

  Swings, Racing, Luck

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• The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Expression, Dancing

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• Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Art, Dancing

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• But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

  T. S. Eliot

  Daughter, Time, Spring

  The Waste Land l. 196 (1922)

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• Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

  James Keller

  Time, Moving, Roaring

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• Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Elephants, Car, Bigs

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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• I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

  Renny Harlin

  Real, Motor Oil, Experts

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

  Ted Danson

  Motor Oil, Organization, Together

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• how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors. I tell you, it's a whole different sex! Joe: What are you afraid of? Nobody's asking you to have a baby.

  Jack Lemmon

  Baby, Sex, Spring

  "Fictional character: Jerry". "Some Like It Hot", 1959.

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• Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.

  James Adams

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• [A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

  Tipu Aziz

  Animal, Alzheimer's, Research

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• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

  Charles Kettering

  Feet, Achievement, Boss

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• Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

  Murray Walker

  Memories, Racing, Having Fun

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• Thackwell really can metaphorically coast home now

  Murray Walker

  Home, Racing, Coast

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• And all Niki really has to do now is coast

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Coast

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• Alain Prost is in a commanding second position

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Position

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• A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Racing, Mediocre

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• With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Two

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• There are four different cars filling the first four places.

  Murray Walker

  Car, Racing, Different

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• And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte

  Murray Walker

  Racing

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• Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

  Murray Walker

  Race, Racing, Driving

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• Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away

  Tony Lewis

  Racing, Four, Speak

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• ... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Facts

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