motor quotes

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

-Chapman, (Anthony) Colin Bruce
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Literature is a power line and the motor, mark you, is the reader.

-Curtis, Charles P
  A Commonplace Book.

Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.

-Hawthorn, Mike
  Shortly before his death. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is onlya motor hand.

-Hepworth, Dame Barbara
  A Pictorial  Autobiography.

To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

-Mayakovsky,Vladimir
  'Letter from Paris to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love' (translated by Samuel Charteris).

   Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sundayafternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  A Child's Christmas inWales.

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