Motor Quotes

310 Motor quotes by 205 unique authors

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought… — Ayn Rand
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a… — Charles Scott Sherrington
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… — Maggie Scarf
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. — Barbara Tuchman
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
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort… — Malcolm Gladwell
There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make… — Unknown Author
Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up… — Dave Barry
We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really… — Menzies Campbell
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody… — Philip Slater
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry… — Ernie Pyle
Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power? — Max Lucado
It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider… — Masaaki Hatsumi
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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
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
To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To… — Eve Ensler
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have… — Howard Roberts
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. — Roman Jakobson
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… — Roman Jakobson
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. — Arthur Hailey
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… — Joseph Heller
Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing — Jody Scheckter
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. — Ayrton Senna

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