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Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like. -- Mario Andretti
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. -- Lewis Mumford
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. -- Barbara Johnson
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? -- George Bernard Shaw
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room. -- Helmut Newton
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. -- Wyndham Lewis
Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me. -- Dean Smith
In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales. -- Henry Ford
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. -- Peter Dunne
Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety. -- Ralph Nader
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. -- Murray Walker
I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps. -- Ted Nugent
My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City. -- Big Sean
Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry. -- Elon Musk
I remember traffic jams Motor boys and girls with tans Nearly was and almost rans I remember this, this ... At the edge of the continent -- Michael Stipe
The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business. -- William Clay Ford, Sr.
When the head of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo, was fighting with his younger brother Chung Mong-hun over the company's management, he is said to have consulted a fortune-teller. -- Kim Young-ha
There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go. -- Carroll Smith
If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government. -- Arthur Laffer
The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? Which freaked me out because I was on my way to the Department of Motor Vehicles. -- Arj Barker
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
As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is! -- Paul Virilio
I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake. -- Greg Behrendt
Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become. -- Gerald Celente
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
The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started. -- Jay Leno
My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research. -- Renny Harlin
I will stop the motor of the world. -- John Galt
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car. -- Carroll Shelby
Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive. -- Joe Biden
Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear. -- Bill Gothard
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. -- Edmund Wilson
Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached. -- David Brenner
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. -- Ernest Hemingway
I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago. -- Baba Kalyani
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. -- John Wyndham
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. -- Elon Musk
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. -- Edward de Bono
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
Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised. -- Anupam Kher
When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. -- Tom Hodgkinson
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. -- G. Stanley Hall
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game. -- Harry Broadhurst
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
I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me. -- D. H. Lawrence
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that. -- Kimi Raikkonen
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. -- Roman Jakobson
I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do. -- Stephen Hawking
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The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected. -- Nikola Tesla
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. -- Stewart Udall
The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous. -- Sebastian Vettel
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
Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk. -- Stephen Hawking
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area. -- Karen Duffy
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
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. -- Orville Wright
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway. -- Stephen Hawking
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. -- Fredric Jameson
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
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won. -- Orville Wright
Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. -- Tom Chatfield
Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it. -- Robyn Davidson
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. -- Joseph Heller
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won. -- Ayn Rand
Education is the motor-force of revolution. -- Bill Ayers
Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me? -- Jimi Hendrix
Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races. -- Carroll Smith
Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said -- Masashi Kishimoto
I love all motor sports at the top level. -- Mario Andretti
If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motor bike. -- Orlando Bloom
I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out. -- Carolyn Wells
And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. -- Tim Holden
Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars. -- Jethro Tull
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays. -- Colin Chapman
Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing -- Jody Scheckter
Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.. -- Henry Ford
Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly ... -- Anne Sexton
The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills. -- John H. Matthews
You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing. -- Murray Walker
I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating. -- Ryan Sheckler
The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure. -- Wilhelm Reich
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. -- G. Stanley Hall
I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead. -- Warren Zevon
To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. -- T. S. Eliot
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. -- Roman Jakobson
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. -- Frank Gehry
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional. -- Edward Abbey
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. -- Marshall McLuhan
As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing. -- Carlos Ghosn
The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds. -- Rod Stewart
A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike. -- Elton John
Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate. -- Richard Louv
Open your eyes, I've got a big surprise, it will feel alright, I want to make your motor run. -- Meat Loaf
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. -- Curt Sachs
I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. -- Ayrton Senna
Aggi berjalan pulang sendiri menuju tempat parkir. Saat melaju, kendaraannyaterasa lebih ringan. Satu helmnya menggantung kesepian di setang motor. -- Desi Puspitasari
Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure. -- Wayne White
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough... -- Edward de Bono
I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf. -- Stuart Appleby
Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect. -- Will Hutton
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. -- Stephen Hawking
Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up. -- David Hurst
It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads. -- Stanley Elkin
Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed. -- Adolf Hitler
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. -- Orville Wright
Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power? -- Max Lucado
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil. -- John Lasseter
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. -- Jamake Highwater
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. -- Assata Shakur
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. -- Ernest Gellner
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No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor. -- Dallas Willard
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. -- George Bernard Shaw
If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six. -- Nat King Cole
Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in? -- Joan Robinson

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