Vehicle Quotes - Page 22

• If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.

  Philip Auslander

  Expression, Numbers, Choices

  Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.2, Routledge

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• [Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

  James Scott

  Anxiety, Rumor, May

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• Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

  Susan Sontag

  Independent, Dumb, Secret

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• The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

  James Hervey

  Ocean, Islands, Climate

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90

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• The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

  Ayn Rand

  Movie, Stars, Moving

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.459, Penguin

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• People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Men, People

  Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.490

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• for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

  Margaret Atwood

  Social, Novel

  Coles Notes Staff, Coles Publishing Company. Editorial Board, Margaret Atwood (1998). “Atwood: Surfacing ; notes”

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• Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

  Peg Bracken

  Food, Competition, Television

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• Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

  John Ruskin

  Peculiar, Noble, Painting

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

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• I've always loved fast vehicles and looking at interesting cars.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Interesting, Car

  "Ndamukong Suh Interview". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Believe it or not, your company, and even the industry, is not the opportunity. You are. Your company and Network Marketing are simply the vehicles that allow you to express your own inherent opportunity.

  Randy Gage

  Believe, Opportunity, Marketing

  Randy Gage (2001). “How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing”, p.273, Internet Profit Kit

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• I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

  Laurel Clark

  Data, Looks, Might

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• Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Yoga

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• The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

  Barry Eisler

  Jobs, Essence, Different

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• If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Safety, Needs

  "Of Permanent Value : The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, Vol. 2 (p. 1615), 2007.

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Greatness, Odds

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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• Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll stop evolving. Love is a far superior spiritual vehicle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

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• The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

  Robert Genn

  Eye, Kissing, Curves

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• Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

  Dale Spender

  Ideas, Language, Carrie

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• Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.

  Carol Browner

  Class, Oil, Cost

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• I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.

  Claude Brown

  Red Flags, Car, Credit

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• Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.

  Wayne Hale

  Moving, Space, Flying

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• One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.

  May Sarton

  Believe, Belief, Talent

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cake

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• Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Believe, Commitment, Technology

  "Democrats' Radio Response". www.foxnews.com. October 08, 2005.

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