Motor Quotes - Page 16

• And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Champion

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• My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.

  Sean Astin

  Running, Home, Idaho

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• Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

  Max Lucado

  Religious, Knowing, Crosses

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.389, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Car, Shows, Dictionary

  Anthony Burgess (1964). “Language made plain”

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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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• 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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• Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.

  Jethro Tull

  Reality, Car, World

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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• When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.

  Fanny Brice

  Happiness, Love Is, Vitality

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Courses

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• As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Significant Things

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• 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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• Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Eye, Motor Racing

  "The final pit stop". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2000.

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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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• Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Two

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• And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Hills

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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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• 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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