Quote by Murray Walker

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

Summary

This quote suggests that while there may not be any intrinsic faults or problems with something, the presence of a major issue or obstacle can still overshadow all its positive aspects. It highlights the idea that even one significant flaw can negate all the other merits or qualities, emphasizing the importance of addressing and resolving the most urgent and pressing issues in order to truly appreciate and make use of something. In essence, this quote points out that one critical problem can render all other advantages insignificant or irrelevant.

Topics

Car

By Murray Walker

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cyn

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

Future

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

Inspirational

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Morals

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Shopping

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unask

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Understanding

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four ho

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

Learning

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.

Lord Chesterfield

Flattery

The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Me

The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Change

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Benicio Del Toro

Identity

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable co

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Success & Failure

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

Attitude

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done h

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

William Shakespeare

Death