The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) - Organisation offering advanced training to motorists. Contains information about instruction, the advanced test, fleet training, groups, and joining details.
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Advanced Motorists Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Advanced Motorists
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Advanced Motorists The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Advanced Motorists
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Advanced Motorists "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Advanced Motorists
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Advanced Motorists "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Advanced Motorists
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Advanced Motorists A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Advanced Motorists
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Advanced Motorists We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Advanced Motorists
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Advanced Motorists An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Advanced Motorists
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Advanced Motorists Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Advanced Motorists
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Advanced Motorists I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Advanced Motorists
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Advanced Motorists Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Advanced Motorists
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Advanced Motorists Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Advanced Motorists
