Top 23 Ferdinand Porsche Quotes
#1. It was done with respect for both tradition and the full array of Nazi panoply. The mood was jovial at the May 1938 laying of the VW factory's cornerstone as Hitler tried his Beetle's rear seating. Robert Ley and Ferdinand Porsche were the most prominent of those behind him.
Karl Ludvigsen
#2. So is death a journey? Is it to another place?" she asked. "Is it another planet?"
"Many have wondered this very question,"replied rovender. "But there is an old Caerulan saying: When your journey reaches its destination here, may you walk on through the memories of those still with us.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#3. I step back,
hating pity,
having learned
from Mother that
the pity giver
feels better,
never the pity receiver.
Thanhha Lai
#4. I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
Ferdinand Porsche
#6. In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.
Ferdinand Porsche
#8. In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.
Anna Quindlen
#9. I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
Ferdinand Porsche
#10. It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
Richard Linklater
#11. Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
Carly Simon
#12. Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
#14. If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Ferdinand Porsche
#15. A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
Ferdinand Porsche
#16. Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Ferdinand Porsche
#19. I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.
Greg LeMond
#21. You don't come in here on Sunday with a big banana and expect everything to be peaches.
Pauly D
#22. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
Ferdinand Porsche
#23. My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.
Richard Flanagan
