Quotes of Motor - somelinesforyou

“ Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. ”

- Corrie ten Boom

“ There was police cars everywhere, detectives cars everywhere, there was crime scene tape around this. And for somebody to do this to her, it just an outrage, really. ”

- Dennis Wilson

“ I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing. ”

- Stephen Wright

“ The will is never free — it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car — it can't steer. ”

- Joyce Cary

“ When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer. ”

- King Vidor

“ The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ”

- John Howard

“ What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. ”

- Stanley Kunitz

“ Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all. ”

- John Milton

“ Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! ”

- Ben Jonson

“ O, for an engine to keep back all clocks! ”

- Ben Johnson

“ Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? ”

- Frank Carson

“ Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes. Without this information, we cannot figure out what is going on under the hood, so to speak, or what the engine can do. ”

- Steve Allen

“ The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer. ”

- Joyce Cary

“ If I have engine trouble, there will be no trouble with gliding. ”

- Steve Fossett

“ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. ”

- Orville Wright

“ It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. ”

- Wilbur Wright

“ There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games. ”

- Earnest Hemingway

“ Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ”

- Barbara Johnson

“ What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa. ”

- Charles E. Wilson

“ I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing. ”

- Steven Wright

“ The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ”

- C. Wright Mills

“ What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse… ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays. ”

- Richard Gough

“ We want Urge to replicate the raw motorcycle experience as much as possible, with the exposed engine, door-panel cut-outs and open top. Motorcycles are exhilarating to drive and we want this car to feel the same way. ”

- Bruce Campbell

“ 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 some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss you can't do that… ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries… ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

- James Truslow Adams
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