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Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.
Murray Walker
Totally
Never
Safe
Opinion
Motor
In My Opinion
Racing
Should
Motor racing is 99 per cent downs and one per cent ups. It's a huge challenge, as there are so many things that can go wrong.
Nigel Mansell
Challenge
Per
Wrong
Go
Motor
Huge
Ups
Cent
Racing
Many
Downs
Things
When I was in motor racing, I had taken the decision to risk my life. But when you run an airline, and more than 200 people want to go from A to B - and they don't arrive - that's a different responsibility.
Niki Lauda
Life
You
People
Decision
Responsibility
My Life
Airline
Run
Risk
More
Had
Taken
Arrive
Go
Motor
Than
Different
Want
Racing
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
Orville Wright
Power
Few
Seconds
Completed
Rapidly
Would
Minute
Only
Horse
Develop
Dropped
Till
Tested
Motor
End
Found
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
Our
Kind
About
Case
Wing
Had
Absorb
Gliding
Crushing
Were
Motor
Uneasy
Shock
Experiences
Experiments
Which
Landed
Landing
Number
We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
Orville Wright
Better
Power
Satisfied
Once
Completion
Drawing
Adjustment
Proper
More
More Power
Could
Were
Motor
According
Expected
Little
Then
Therefore
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
Orville Wright
First
Trial
Machine
Released
Run
Tossed
Could
Wire
Had
Until
Make
Track
Sure
Operator
Been
Condition
Motor
Won
Decide
Should
Who
Fastened
Start
Coin
As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.
Pranav Mistry
Fly
Made
Seventh
Would
See
Classmates
Had
Make
Because
Rockets
Motor
Models
Heavy
Them
Boats
My dad's first-ever real true job was at Ford Motor Company. He was a UAW member.
Rashida Tlaib
Job
Member
He
True
Ford
Real
Motor
Company
Dad
I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.
Renny Harlin
Work
Me
Result
Out
Direct
More
Well
Became
Shell
Real
Motor
Lots
Offered
Commercials
Did
Oil
Expert
Turned
Really
Film
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
Richard E. Grant
Time
Great
Me
Criticism
Big
Kind
Would
Tends
Never
Budget
Make
Time And Time
Motor
Efficiency
Again
Turn
Film
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
Myself
Mother
Mechanic
Father
Bath
Consider
Motor
Moved
Homemaker
Four
It's funny: I can never sleep between shows; I think it's because I don't like to switch the motor off. I'll probably have some chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around.
Richard McCabe
Funny
Together
Think
Though
Out
Some
Never
Between
Like
Because
Around
Go
Motor
Off
Chicken
Quick
Pasta
Maybe
Wander
Shows
Switch
Two
Sleep
Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.
Siri Hustvedt
Language
Took
Mine
Relentless
Visual
Rarely
Horrifying
Involve
Were
Motor
Place
Sensory
Certainly
Present
Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.
Stephen Hawking
Family
Abortion
Other
Member
Kind
High
Would
Would-Be
Favour
Indication
Some
Risk
Had
Genetically
Motor
Linked
Disease
Forms
I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.
Stuart Appleby
Think
Fine
Adrenalin
Through
Veins
Motor
Going
Golf
Skills
Your
Certainly
Help
All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
T. E. Hulme
Mind
Conviction
Emotional
Motor
Conversion
Aspects
Based
Necessarily
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
Ted Danson
Environmental
Together
Organization
Recycling
State
Project
Promote
Angeles
Los
Los Angeles
Motor
Get
Get Together
Oil
Where
Oil Company
Used
Company
Here
No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.
Theo Paphitis
Environmental
Death
Change
Car
Negative
Consequences
Liberation
Disturbing
Roads
Major
Instituted
Also
Without
Array
Caused
Been
Motor
Motor Car
Mankind
Congestion
Meant
Toll
Ever
Technological
Millions
Damage
No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.
Tim Daly
Me
Anger
People
Down
Rage
Way
Out
See
Threatened
Steel
Drives
Feel
Ticked
Know
Look
Motor
Off
Rod
Get
Banging
Gets
Going
Just
Door
Should
Watch
This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.
Toto Wolff
Change
Pretty
Motor
Quickly
Racing
Things
This is motor racing. We go at very high speeds, and tires have always been deflating or exploding. It is just part of the sport.
Toto Wolff
Speeds
High
Part
Sport
Always
Go
Been
Motor
Very
Just
Tires
Exploding
Racing
People enjoy watching sports at the weekend and watching motor racing and whatever sports, and Formula One is the number one global platform which is competing regularly - not like the Olympic Games or the World Cup - so the macro case was this is something that we should be part of because it's going to grow, and it does.
Toto Wolff
Sports
People
World
Whatever
Enjoy
Case
Something
Weekend
Part
Like
Global
Because
Does
Motor
Cup
Going
Which
Formula
Formula One
Racing
Should
Regularly
Games
Grow
Platform
World Cup
Competing
Watching
Olympic
Olympic Games
Number
At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
People
Speak
Language
Believe
All People
Thread
Ford
Motor
Common
Arts
Common Language
Company
Among
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
You
Try
First
Country
Dinosaur
Industrial
Industry
Learn
Motor
Model
Role
Role Model
Happens
Should
Britain
British
Save
I think as much as people talk about Scotland as being a place where it's raining all the time it's a fantastic country. Considering it's such a small country you have to realise how successful it's been in the world of motor sport.
Susie Wolff
Time
You
People
World
Country
Think
I Think
Considering
About
Small
Small Country
Talk
Sport
How
Been
Motor
Scotland
Being
Where
Realise
Place
Fantastic
Much
Successful
Raining
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