# Quote — Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul

> Francis Bacon once said there is no beauty that hath not some strangeness to its proportion. Cameron Diaz proves that- she's got a mouth like a slice of watermelon. But the Flying Scotsman proves it to be wrong. There is no strangeness at all. He is exquisite to behold, partly because he is so nicely balanced and partly because he seems to shout "I AM VERY POWERFUL'.

- Author: [Jeremy Clarkson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson.md)
- Book: [I Know You Got Soul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/francis-bacon-once

## More from this book

> It's no more daunting in there than in a Georgian drawing room. You sit on a supremely comfortable chair- it'd be even better if it were a wingback, I'm surprised it's not- overlooking acres of leather and wood. You're never tempted, as you are in a Maybach, to push a button just to find out what it does. And then having to spend the rest of the journey trying to find which button undoes whatever the first button did. This makes for a hugely relaxing drive. So relaxing, in fact, that you sometimes forget that you're in a car. I did.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/its-no-more.md)

> Small boys everywhere know that in a fight between Superman, James Bond and the Terminator, James Bond would win. Well, it's the same story in Star Wars. In a fight between the Enterprise, Stingray, Thunderbird 2 and the Millennium Falcon, the Falcon would reign supreme. It just would. The end.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/small-boys-everywhere.md)

> The Flying Scotsman was the first train, ever, to do 100 MPH. 147 tons doing the ton.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeremy-clarkson/i-know-you-got-soul/the-flying-scotsman.md)