John Surtees quotes

John Surtees quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.”
-- John Surtees

#Car Quotes #Half Quotes #Come Up Quotes
“Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.”
-- John Surtees

#Practice Quotes #Consistency Quotes #Needs Quotes
“Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.”
-- John Surtees

#Disappointment Quotes #Home Quotes #Car Quotes
“I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.”
-- John Surtees

#Careers Quotes #New Car Quotes #New Career Quotes
“The connection of the car to the driver is the seat. You are strapped in tightly in it. On the motorcycle, you can move around. The G-forces feel different. It's probably harder to change from the car to the motorcycle.”
-- John Surtees

#Moving Quotes #Car Quotes #Motorcycle Quotes

“I really like listening to music in my car.”

Source : "Rebecca Romijn's Recipes for Success". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.health.com. July 25, 2012.
“The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.”

Source : "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-aged White Guy". Book by Adam Carolla, edition.cnn.com. 2010.
“I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.”
“Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple thÃ©orie, elle est une vie supÃ©rieure, dont la moralitÃ© fait partie intÃ©grante - une vie vouÃ©e au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.”
“I spent 24 and a half years in prison”
“The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.”

Source : Song: Princess Olivia
“Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.”
“Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.”
“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
“Curation comes up when search stops working,”

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