Most Excellent Quotes

[pete376403]

Cos in COSworth...........
He's nowhere near as quotable sorry.......

Understood but if Duckworth was "the best and most successful F1 engineer/designer that has ever lived" what role did Costin play?

[husaberg]

Understood but if Duckworth was "the best and most successful F1 engineer/designer that has ever lived" what role did Costin play?

Second fiddle obviously He's Ringo........

Mike Costin who, on learning of his friend's death, described himself as having "studied for 40 years at the University of Duckworth".

"Duckworthisms" became renowned throughout the racing and engineering worlds.
These included: "It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed";
"a genius can make for a penny what a good engineer can only make for 10p";
"very few straight answers are ever possible:
the decisive man is a simple-minded man".
He based job interviews on the principle that "young fools go on to become old fools".

[Grumph]

An oldie which has relevance to those following the ESE engineering thread...

In 1914 Louis Coatalen (Sunbeam designer) in reply to a comment by Pomeroy Senior (Vauxhall designer) that his racing engines were devilish like the previous year's Peugeots said "Ah, Pomeroy, 'ee ees a vise man who copy wizout altair".

[unstuck]

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

[Laava]

Second fiddle obviously he's Ringo.

Speaking of Ringo, apparently John Lennon said of him,
"He's not even the best drummer in the band"

[yokel]

“Whoever controls the media controls the mind” – Jim Morrison

"the common man is a fool" - Henry Ford (I think)

[husaberg]

"Most of the quotes attributed to me, that so fill the internet these days have never been uttered once by me."

Abraham Lincoln

[husaberg]

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
― Bob Marley

“Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.”
― Bob Marley

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”
― Bob Marley

“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
“love the life you live.
live the life you love.”
― Bob Marley

[jasonu]

The best one I have heard recently was Bob Hannah when asked what he misses the most about MX racing. 'Getting paid for not doing much' was the answer.

[ruaphu]

Everytime i see chite on the telly involving the Taliban or Afghanistan reminds of a quote in book i read years back that stuck in my head, that unfortunately seems to be ringing true.

"The Taliban, I learned, have a saying: 'You may have the watches, but we have the time."

From;
A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan.





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[jasonu]

I have a DVD and book on Barry Sheene, great reading and great watching...


On his customer spec RG500 that he rode during 1983, that “it wouldn’t pull a boy scout off your granny”

Barry Sheene when a nurse asked if he was allergic to anything. 'Cancer' was the reply.

[jasonu]

Croz is still alive.

He wasn't involved in a freak incident where a steering arm stabbed him in the (I think) head.

[husaberg]

He wasn't involved in a freak incident where a steering arm stabbed him in the (I think) head.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

http://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/...death-comment/

[unstuck]

Lovely country, lovely weather, shit tea.

Bugger cannot put the vid up. Was guy martin at wanganui being interviewed by Cliff Field.

[James Deuce]

AFL commentator Gerard Healy, after referring, live on air, to the Gold Coast Suns as the "Gold Cunts": "I always thought Karmichael Hunt was going to be the trap for commentators, but for me it was a combination of 'coast' and 'suns'."