car

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘car’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.” -Graham Hill

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  • “He’s computerized, but I won’t let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.” -William Daniels

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  • “If you don’t drink, smoke, or drive a car, you’re a tax evader.” -Thomas S. Foley

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  • “I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.” -Susan Smith

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  • “Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn’t spend too well.” -Buck Baker

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  • “I will stay in the car until the last minute that I’m going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.” -Martha Raddatz

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  • “When women break that taboo and they’re not afraid to drive that car by herself – that’s it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.” -Manal al-Sharif

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  • “For an actor, you’re rejected eight or ten times a day. All you’ve got to sell is yourself. You’re not selling products, they’re not turning down a car, they’re turning you down. Most people can’t handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.” -Barry Corbin

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  • “Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I’d rather have one horsepower – in a horse. That’s macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.” -Bryan Callen

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  • “In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.” -Xavier Niel

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  • “A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.” -Michael Frayn

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  • “Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible – and every place alike.” -Ronald Steel

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  • “At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.” -Maria de Villota

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  • “I think it’s particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You’re like, ‘I don’t want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let’s ride in a group. Let’s be independent, together.’” -Ryan…

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  • “Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don’t have freedom to do anything anymore.” -Tony Stewart

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  • “I compare it to being in a car accident. There’s so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don’t remember any of the details.” -Brooke Langton

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  • “I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.” -Rodger Ward

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  • “It’s a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.” -Carroll Shelby

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  • “I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that’s sometimes a problem.” -Lou Thesz

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  • “I’m not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn’t such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn’t have to pass one.” -Richard Murdoch

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  • “In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you’re saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.” -Bill Conti

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  • “A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.” -Eleanor Robson Belmont

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  • “Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.” -Junior Johnson

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  • “The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.” -Tom Dempsey

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  • “It’s pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.” -Buddy Rice

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  • “There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn’t insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn’t call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like,…

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  • “I’m not good at normal things. I can’t drive a car. I couldn’t read till I was 10.” -Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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  • “It’s like, once you’ve seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you’ve seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can’t fully get really lost in them.” -Justin Theroux

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  • “When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family’s car at the drive-in.” -Forest Whitaker

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  • “The trick at Le Mans is to get the car ‘in the window.’ Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window – it’s about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the…

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  • “I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.” -Lauren Alaina

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  • “It’s funny I’m in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I’m not that into sports. I can’t fix a car. I think it’s my point of view and the way I see the world.” -Corey Stoll

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  • “Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.” -Al Jardine

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  • “On one level, nothing’s really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it’s impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it’s impossible not to be seduced by it once you’ve entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.” -Michael Tolkin

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  • “Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn’t got the facilities to develop colored film.” -Abraham Zapruder

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  • “But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should – the house, the car, the plane, the boat – what comes next?” -Tom Hunter

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  • “I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car, and then haggling for the price. I wish I could just snap my fingers and my car is there.” -Kiran Ahluwalia

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  • “I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.” -Romany Malco

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  • “I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing – whenever I’m singing to the radio – my friends kind of hate it – but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I’m singing the harmonies to the tracks and I’m jamming…

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  • “I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.” -Gio Gonzalez

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  • “Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the ‘rich’ is likely to result in an economic burnout.” -Terry Savage

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  • “I can change a tire, but I couldn’t change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.” -Mike O’Malley

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  • “I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.” -Lewis Hamilton

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  • “We don’t have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it’s a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It’s just incredible.” -Sean William Scott

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  • “I’ve still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.” -Patrice O’Neal

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  • “I haven’t got a car or a house. I’ve got a wife, but I didn’t pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She’s here with a knife at my throat!” -Mackenzie Crook

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  • “I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.” -John Henry Carver

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  • “Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.” -Sacha Baron Cohen

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  • “Doorman – a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.” -Dorothy Kilgallen

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  • “We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.” -Brody Armstrong

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  • “I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.” -Christine O’Donnell

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  • “‘Blind Curve,’ the book I’m working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation – an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except…

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  • “I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there’s nothing separating you. It’s just you, and the voice – you, and the water.” -Jacob Lusk

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  • “I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.” -Nelson Piquet

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  • “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

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  • “When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I’m not thinking about that side of things. I’m thinking about the car, I’m thinking about the race and I’m thinking about how to make the car faster.” -Scott Dixon

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  • “Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.” -Richard Petty

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  • “To have some idea what it’s like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he’s 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.” -Geoffrey Boycott

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  • “I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.” -Albert Wynn

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  • “Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.” -Will Durst

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  • “Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I’d left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice – ‘Hey, man, I’m Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?’ The guard…

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  • “Unfortunately we don’t have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we’ve got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.” -David Leslie

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  • “But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don’t have a car I don’t really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.” -Vincent Kartheiser

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  • “I’ve got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I’ve got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.” -Al Unser

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  • “I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.” -Elmer Bernstein

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  • “We’re one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car… or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.” -Gerald McRaney

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  • “I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.” -Marion Berry

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  • “The car is a character in the piece – I’ve never liked the car, I submitted to it’s objectionable popularity.” -Paul M. Glaser

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  • “I can’t find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. ‘Where’s my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.’” -Anthony LaPaglia

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  • “Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that’s when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.” -Dan Wheldon

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  • “I don’t drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.” -Alan Davies

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  • “Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You’re expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.” -Lauren Ambrose

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  • “There’s an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car.” -Denis Norden

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  • “A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we’re going to try to run it.” -Sterling Marlin

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  • “Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.” -Tom Holt

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  • “When I’m in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.” -Burton Cummings

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  • “Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.” -Andrew P. Harris

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  • “I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.” -John Searle

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  • “I’m a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I’ll just drive him around and start singin’.” -Casey Abrams

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  • “I talk to myself, especially in the car.” -Chris Pine

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  • “You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.” -Walter Russell Mead

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  • “In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.” -J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • “I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the ‘pack the kids into the car and run from here to there’ out of the equation.” -Ree Drummond

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  • “Yeah, it’s risky, but no more risky than driving a car.” -Cory Lidle

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  • “A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite… what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?” -Charles Dance

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  • “Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be…

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  • “I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.” -Richard Gough

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  • “There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?” -Timothy Griffin

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  • “See, what you’re meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren’t you? Well, I’ve always had fast cars. It’s not that. It’s the fear that you’re past your best. It’s the fear that the stuff you’ve done in the past is your best work.” -Robbie Coltraine

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  • “When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn’t have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country?” -Sherman Austin

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  • “The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.” -Charlie Rose

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  • “Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful – I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!” -Jaime Hernandez

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  • “I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.” -Jessica Pare

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  • “Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case ’cause he thinks it’s a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there’s a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.” -Eugene Chadbourne

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  • “There’s a lot of stress… but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.” -Dan Brown

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  • “So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.” -Craig Johnston

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  • “The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.” -Nigel Mansell

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  • “I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.” -Michael Schumacher

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  • “After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack’s Car, but that didn’t last.” -Jack Irons

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  • “Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I’m right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.” -Amy Weber

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  • “I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.” -Connie Chung

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  • “You can’t show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.” -Doris Roberts

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  • “Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn’t mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit’s still 65.” -Neil Sheehan

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  • “My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.” -Goran Ivanisevic

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  • “I’ve always been asked, ‘What is my favorite car?’ and I’ve always said ‘The next one.’” -Caroll Shelby

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  • “The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.” -Dudley Moore

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  • “Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it – getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.” -Dave Lombardo

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  • “Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family’s bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!” -Linwood Barclay

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  • “When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That’s why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.” -Wilson Greatbatch

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  • “It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t ‘Thelma and Louise’ prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car they were being chased by cops they shot up a truck – and women loved it.” -Robin Quivers

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  • “The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro…

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  • “Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.” -Jared Padalecki

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  • “These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.” -Al Jarreau

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  • “I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.” -Aimee Mann

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  • “In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.” -Roman Polanski

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  • “What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.” -Serge Schmemann

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  • “Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.” -Marc Davis

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  • “You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn’t matter whether he’s a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.” -Scott Bakula

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  • “That’s when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!” -Rick Yune

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  • “At root fame is a sham. I’m not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don’t you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.” -Nick Mancuso

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  • “The GTO is such an important car because it’s a racing car and a touring car and that’s pretty unusual.” -Nick Mason

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  • “In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.” -Beverley Mitchell

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  • “I wasn’t one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.” -Christina Applegate

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  • “What’s monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning – the waiting around.” -Chris Messina

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  • “I’m ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of ‘Starsky and Hutch’ as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it’s stupid – they’d have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.” -Shane Black

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  • “Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.” -Aly Raisman

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  • “Most women’s pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men’s pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.” -Frances McDormand

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  • “Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we’ve been doing it faster.” -Arlie Russell Hochschild

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  • “We’re going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.” -Larry Dixon

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  • “I don’t get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.” -Sherry Stringfield

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  • “You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.” -Emerson Fittipaldi

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  • “You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.” -Sergey Brin

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  • “I don’t want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.” -Andy Milonakis

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  • “Now I’m having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album – but I’m pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it’s meant I don’t drive a fancy car and can’t afford grand vacations.” -David Knopfler

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  • “A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn’t get hit by a bus.” -Sean Astin

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  • “I love singin’ in the car, it just makes me feel good.” -Scotty McCreery

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  • “Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.” -Aaron Paul

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  • “When I’m in the car sometimes it’s like, ‘Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.’ You know what I mean? I don’t want to listen to Tom Waits.” -Max Greenfield

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  • “I’ve already established my (political)machinery. It’s like a car. It’s fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.” -Manny Pacquiao

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  • “I remember being at Greenblatt’s on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, ‘Who are you?…

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  • “Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.” -Michael D. Barnes

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  • “Growing up in the Midwest, people don’t drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn’t occur to you because it’s not what you relate to.” -Luke Perry

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  • “I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.” -Amy Sherman-Palladino

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  • “I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don’t sing in the shower, maybe its because that’s the one time I don’t need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I’m just, you know, jibber jabber.” -Haley Reinhart

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  • “I’d rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn’t happen to know of a rental car place around.” -Ryan Stiles

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  • “The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There’s nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.” -Samantha Barks

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  • “I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.” -Randy Bachman

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  • “I’ve been in California for about 15 years now. You’re always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.” -Jimmy Smits

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  • “I wasn’t going to get such a nice car – I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy – but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!” -Chris Colfer

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  • “As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is… I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I’m out there, I’m getting the nice hotel suite, I’m getting the luxury car, I’m eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on…

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  • “If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.” -Jean Pigozzi

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  • “The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.” -Rich Lowry

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  • “I have a Volvo S60R and it’s a pretty fast car, the R says it all.” -Josie Maran

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  • “I have a new little stray dog that I’ve had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk – he’s this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.” -Krysten Ritter

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  • “When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.” -Mireille Enos

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  • “When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad’s Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.” -Danny Masterson

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  • “The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.” -Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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  • “Accidents happen, whether they’re car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they’re tragic. It’s like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It’s the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.” -James Belushi

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  • “The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.” -Martin McGuinness

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  • “The percentage you’re paying is too high priced While you’re living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he’s made on your dreams.” -Steve Winwood

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  • “Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music…

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  • “On the dance floor, as much as you say, ‘Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,’ they still try to be in control.” -Len Goodman

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  • “The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.” -Adlai Stevenson

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  • “In the end I didn’t get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.” -Jacky Ickx

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  • “I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.” -Jonathan Winters

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  • “I’ve been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it’s not a comfortable feeling.” -Richard Hammond

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  • “I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.” -Bobby Rahal

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  • “Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral’s flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.” -Richard Widmark

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  • “Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they’re right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.” -Max Irons

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  • “You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn’t take a million years of screen time.” -Gary Cole

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  • “The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can’t do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can’t just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.” -Michael…

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  • “Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.” -June Singer

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  • “I was really into classifieds for awhile. I’m a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger… it’s just in my blood.” -Jake Johnson

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  • “We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.” -Jackie Stewart

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  • “It wasn’t a secret that I was gay. I’d come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.” -Mary Cheney

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  • “My health is wonderful. I work out. I’m working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I’m blessed. I survived.” -Steven Adler

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  • “Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.” -Mark-Paul Gosselaar

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  • “I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.” -Patricia Highsmith

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  • “I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.” -Matthew Perry

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  • “Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.” -David Alan Grier

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