(177 quotes found)
“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”
Wilbur Wright
“When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''”
Charles F. Kettering
“While the Pope owns 51% of General Motors And the stock exchange is the only thing he's qualified to quote us”
George Harrison
“What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.”
Virginia Woolf
“For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.”
Charles Erwin Wilson
“Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.”
David Brenner
“The fish has two motors -- the head turns, the tail moves -- but the deer has six. We've spared no expense on the details. You stick this on the wall, and it looks like a real deer head.”
Sharlene Jenner
“Obviously, Wrigley Field is similar to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in that it has that same mystique to it, ... I don't follow baseball too much, but I know how cool that stadium is and the history and heritage behind it.”
Dan Wheldon
“I used to be a motor mechanic.”
Frank Gardner
“General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.”
Harlow H. Curtice
