Motor Quotes

#1. The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

Murray Walker

#2. I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.

Isabel Allende

#3. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.

Annie Proulx

#4. The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

Rod Stewart

#5. One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

John Piper

#6. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

John Banville

#7. It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.

Christine Kenneally

#8. speed is a skill; therefore, the skill of sprinting can be taught if proper progression and principles of motor learning are applied.

Vern Gambetta

#9. Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

Maggie Scarf

#10. I opened the door as quickly as I could - speedy as a snail in glue. My fine-motor coordination was set on suck mode.

Devon Monk

#11. Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

Richard Powers

#12. 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

#13. Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

Jacques Villeneuve

#14. There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

Murray Walker

#16. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

Laini Taylor

#17. Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up.

David Hurst

#18. With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

Murray Walker

#19. 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

#20. Here in the Motor City, we take an almost perverse pride in doing things the hard way, or whatever way that means we can be left alone to do our thing however we want.

Anna Clark

#21. The motor hums away outside, and the cold air is forced through narrow tubing that enters through a small

Drew Boyd

#22. Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

Assata Shakur

#23. Love
for us
is no paradise of arbors
to us
love tells us, humming,
that the stalled motor
of the heart
has started to work
again.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#24. Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind, a curvilinear labyrinth.

J.G. Ballard

#25. Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot.

Shelby Harris

#26. Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

Wendelin Van Draanen

#27. So very many times over the next three years i heard her laughter - no silver bells or sweet rippling sounds was her laughter, but like a five-year-old's bellow of delight, a cross between a puppy's yelp, a motor-bike and a bicycle pump.

Fynn

#28. All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.

Dax Shepard

#29. The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.

David Eagleman

#30. Power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

Hannah Arendt

#31. I love all motor sports at the top level.

Mario Andretti

#32. I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.

Richard Murdoch

#33. In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Orville Wright

#34. Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.

Stanley Greenspan

#35. I have motor oil running through my veins.

John Lasseter

#36. I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.

Ted Nugent

#37. We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

P. J. O'Rourke

#38. Listeria ... secretes two or three proteins that together hijack the host cell's cytoskeleton. As a result, the bacteria motor around the inside of the infected cell, pushed by an actin 'comet tail' that associates and dissociates behind them.

Nick Lane

#39. Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

Murray Walker

#40. All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

T. E. Hulme

#41. I make love like sausage is to bacon as brick is to blanket. Somebody get me some utensils. And some lubrication (not Castrol Motor Oil).

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#42. 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

#43. Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

Carroll Smith

#44. Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

Gerald Edelman

#45. Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

Elon Musk

#46. 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

#47. Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

Nelson Piquet

#48. One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

Craig Venter

#49. 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

#50. And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

Murray Walker

#51. As I paddled on, mt heartbeat boomed like a motor in my ears. I am I am I am.

Sylvia Plath

#52. Oh, it's a beautiful day, it's an elegant, graceful day, and I'm sailing down the Strip in glamorous Las Vegas, on my motor scooter, in company with a certified illegal prostitute who loves poetry and remembers it. Sonofabitch, I'm a real writer! I used to worry about it, but no more. Life is good.

Peter S. Beagle

#53. 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

#54. If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

Marjane Satrapi

#55. The next morning he drove the stranger's car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver's license. He suddenly realized he had left his name at the prison.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#56. I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#57. The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

Stephen Hawking

#58. It is conceivable that in principle man's motor through-ways resemble the slime trails along which are drawn the gathering mucors that erect the spore palaces, that man's cities are only the ephemeral moment of his spawning
that he must descend upon the orchard of far worlds or die.

Loren Eiseley

#59. 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

#60. Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

Cornelius Plantinga

#61. Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

Charles Lindbergh

#62. Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Peter Behrens

#63. The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Ernest Gellner

#64. You call this progress, because you have motor cars and telephones and flying machines and a thousand potions to make you smell better? And people sleeping on the streets?

Howard Zinn

#65. My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Big Sean

#66. Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.

Will Hutton

#67. We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

Jackie Stewart

#68. 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

#69. The turret was shot with holes, and the floor was jingling with flakes of metal and turret motor.

Laura Hillenbrand

#70. If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice, by showing up, we are signaling that deep motor, that hum of life, that we are ready: Help us. Pay attention and lead us out of our confusion.

Natalie Goldberg

#71. It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

#72. Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Wyndham Lewis

#73. He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.

Nevil Shute

#74. Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

G. Stanley Hall

#75. Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.

Atul Gawande

#76. A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.

Enrique Penalosa

#77. My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

Richard J. Roberts

#78. Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

George Bernard Shaw

#79. I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Frank Gehry

#80. [A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

Tipu Aziz

#81. Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor
by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence
and every achievement is an expression of it.

Ayn Rand

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

Murray Walker

#83. In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

Henry Ford

#84. Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

Ayn Rand

#85. Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

Murray Walker

#86. The thalamus is thus a critical interface between information travelling from the cortex to the motor centres, and from the senses back to the cortex, and is therefore involved in many aspects of the initiation and control of movement.

Mark Plumb

#87. The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.

John Howard Matthews

#88. I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

Murray Walker

#89. At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#90. Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

Jamake Highwater

#91. I'm a big animal. Fine motor skills are not me forte.

Mike Mehalek

#92. Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#93. Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

John Wyndham

#94. I can't believe it. Two years ago I was here as a visitor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and he invited me to come and stay in his motor home. That's the only other time I've been to victory lane.

Denny Hamlin

#95. I hung out with all the guys in my neighborhood when I was little ... I would, like, skateboard and go to skate parks, like, every day and do motor cross, like, every weekend, and I was kind of one of those girls.

Daniella Monet

#96. And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

Tim Holden

#97. A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy ... with a simple payback under 16 months.

Amory Lovins

#98. 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

#99. perhaps like me she's vainly hoping
and some news awaits,
but the moist earth already holds him
in her strong embrace...

Nikola Vaptsarov

#100. Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

Murray Walker