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Quotes About Motors

I've got a fetish about motors on sail boats. Sailboats were meant to sail.
~ Sterling Hayden
I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.
~ David Hanson
My dad was a trained carpenter and worked for Vauxhall Motors. We had money, though not a great deal.
~ Paul Young
But at my back from time to time I hearThe sound of horns and motors, which shall bringSweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.O the moon shone bright on Mrs. PorterAnd on her daughterThey wash their feet in soda water.
~ T. S. Eliot
He kept his shirt-tail hanging out below the hem of his jacket as a white flag to motorists; over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war. It was safer to take an overseas posting with the British Expeditionary Force.
~ Christopher Fowler
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.
~ Charles E. Wilson
As far as the sounds on the space station, it's pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it's generally a pretty nice working environment. It's not too loud or too smelly.
~ Scott Kelly
Appalled by a culture that spent "too much time sitting on soft seats in motors, too much sitting in soft seats in movies,
~ Cheryl Strayed
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.
~ Henry Adams
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
~ Richard Prince
The violations of these diesel motors by our company go against everything that Volkswagen stands for... at this time, I don't yet have the answers to all the questions. I'm utterly sorry that we have damaged trust in this way. I offer my deepest apologies to our customers, the authorities, and to the public at large for our misconduct.
~ Martin Winterkorn
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
~ Mignon McLaughlin