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).
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“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” -Fred Hoyle
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“And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I’d just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.” -Steve Burns
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“In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time – the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.” -John Moody
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“Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?” -Frank Carson
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“I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.” -Devon Sawa
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“I’m like, ‘Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn’t. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after ‘She Loves You,’ or ‘Drive My Car?’ You weren’t on board for ‘Revolution 9’ or ‘Day In The Life,’ were you?’” -Regina Spektor
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“Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn I had everything. Was I set free? I didn’t even know what that meant.” -Taylor Dayne
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“It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn’t remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.” -Andy Partridge
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“The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with…
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“I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don’t take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It’s like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.” -Luc Montagnier
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“I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I’ve been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I’m going on a longer car ride, I’ll download some podcasts.” -Sam Trammell
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“ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.” -Dakota Fanning
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“In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.” -Lawrence Summers
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“As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.” -Lance Loud
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“Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I’m sorry I do not have a car.” -Eric San
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“Well, you go to Holland and everybody’s on a bike – nobody would think to have a car.” -Stone Gossard
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“When you’re in a race car, you’re going through so many different emotions throughout that race.” -Jeff Gordon
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“People would say you look weak if you’re not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be ‘strong’ you’re always supposed to be giving orders.” -Georgios A. Papandreou
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“I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn’t run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.” -Muddy Waters
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“The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.” -Juan Manuel Fangio
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“If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I’m sort of screwed. I’m going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.” -Ken Jennings
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“I think that people don’t know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, ‘I know how to hire someone.’” -Walter Mosley
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“They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.” -David R. Ellis
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“I’m calling from my car, I’m sorry, I’m like running around like crazy.” -Melissa Joan Hart
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“I really like listening to music in my car.” -Aaron Neville
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“There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I’ve always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car… this is going to be unbelievable.” -Guy Fieri
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“It was all that stuff about taking your parents’ car when you’re 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.” -Donal Logue
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“I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I’ve talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that’s the Hollywood car test.” -Ryan Tedder
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“I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I – a car?” -Cyndi Lauper
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“The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.” -Alexandra Paul
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“I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I’d like to have another unusual, beautiful car.” -Andrew Davies
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“A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.” -Carrie P. Snow
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“I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.” -Jim Bakker
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“Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time… I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.” -Joe Montana
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“I was a little different. I still say I’m a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.” -Herschel Walker
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“I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.” -Julian Clary
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“I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I’m wondering if these prices are legitimate.” -Judd Gregg
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“Faith is the substance of hope – of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person…
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“I’m gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I’ll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.” -Jeremy London
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“When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.” -Danny Bonaduce
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“I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They’d be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we’d think: Oh, please Lord, don’t make us go through that.” -Paul Reiser
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“I think there’s a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he’s also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.” -John Shelton Reed
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“Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it’s very small.” -John Hickenlooper
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“It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it’s better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.” -Richard Morris
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“The will is never free – it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car – it can’t steer.” -Joyce Cary
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“I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.” -Lee Konitz
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“If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.” -Valentino Rossi
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“Boys, they can’t take my refrigerator now. They’ll never get my car now. I paid cash for ’em and they’re mine, and I’m keepin’ ’em!” -Patsy Cline
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“I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It’s not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.” -Tracey Gold
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“I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.” -Peter Tork
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“Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.” -Mohamed El-Erian
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“Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“On the average, I don’t spend more than 15 minutes in the car – to go to the golf course or the gym. And that’s the only time I listen to the radio.” -Dweezil Zappa
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“Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all – no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody’s garage in Los Angeles at that point – for a year.” -Renny Harlin
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“I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that’s a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I’m from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come…
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“Have you ever noticed how nice people are at the car wash?! Maybe it’s just me, but it makes me happy. Weird, I know!” -Brittany Snow
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“It used to be that you’d have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.” -Tom T. Hall
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“I don’t think radio is selling records like they used to. They’d hawk the song and hawk the artist and you’d get so excited, you’d stop your car and go into the nearest record store.” -Herb Alpert
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“I did a lot of gasoline commercials – Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.” -Ricky Schroder
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“Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.” -Ashlee Simpson
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“I’m addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I’m addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I’m addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I’m addicted to shiny things!” -Nadia Giosia
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“The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I’ve had sex in trains, planes, wine bars… and quite a few car parks!” -Robbie Williams
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“From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn’t get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.” -John Prescott
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“In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.” -Christie Hefner
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“I think I’m pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don’t have a new car, I drive my old car that I’ve had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.” -Chris O’Donnell
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“When I’m in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.” -Joe Scarborough
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“A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.” -Michael Behe
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“Because I’m a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I’m rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.” -Coolio
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“I feel like we’re a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.” -Kurt Busch
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“I don’t have an interest in any car that isn’t good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.” -Emile Hirsch
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“People spend so much time in their cars, and it’s a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.” -Jordana Brewster
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“I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.” -Trevor Dunn
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“You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and – first of all, it was relief. I was not – there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.” -Patty Hearst
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“So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.” -Loretta Swit
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“The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.” -Steven Soderbergh
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“Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you’d think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind…
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“But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.” -Eva Herzigova
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“And we turned off and 30 miles south they’re standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.” -Betty Hill
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“So if you’re a robot and you’re living on this planet, you can do things that you can’t do in real life – things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.” -William Joyce
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“Going to car racing school was phenomenal.” -Michelle Rodriguez
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“A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it – you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from…
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“My first car was an ’84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn’t good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don’t do that. Do it on concrete.” -T-Pain
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“We need a number of solutions – we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.” -Daryl Hannah
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“Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car.” -Mary Wesley
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“I don’t want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.” -Jessica Chastain
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“The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.” -Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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“Because of that I don’t care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?” -Ruud van Nistelrooy
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“The courts cannot garnish a father’s salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.” -June Jordan
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“Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn’t. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn’t. You either filled a pothole or you didn’t. That’s what we do every day. And we know how to…
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“The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I’d get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you’d have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life’s filled with trauma. You don’t need to go to war to find it it’s going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects…
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“You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.” -Alain Prost
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“We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there’s a shot from the bumper of a car and it’s going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.” -Joel Coen
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“I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It’s very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn’t hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.” -Lucy Hale
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“I’ve always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.” -Ludacris
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“Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.” -Ben Stiller
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“My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad’s car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has ‘Kid Charlemagne’ on it.” -St. Vincent
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“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That’s something for a stage actor.” -William H. Macy
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“Your car should drive itself. It’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.” -Eric Schmidt
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“Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country’s. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. – because the total emissions are set by the cap.” -James Hansen
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“Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family’s cottage in Maine. It’s on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.”…
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“It’s like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I’m five years old, and I end up in the back of my father’s car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.” -Dylan McDermott
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“I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.” -Robert Rauschenberg
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“I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.” -Nick Cannon
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“I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.” -Victoria Principal
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“A geek isn’t the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you’re passionate about something.” -Olivia Munn
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“In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.” -Manfred von Richthofen
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“It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it’s true I was raised in a freight car.” -Merle Haggard
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“There were times when I thought I would never own a car.” -Victor Cruz
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“The image is where you have dinner at night, who you’re seeing. It’s what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There’s nothing else.” -Elle Macpherson
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“I’m the one who gets called up about a problem. I’m the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I’m the one who gets blamed if the police don’t arrive. I’m the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.” -Richard M. Daley
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“You know, it’s amazing. I don’t even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I’ve got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.” -Michael Fassbender
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“I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.” -Hakeem Olajuwon
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“I’ve made movies that cost less than one car chase.” -Sam Mendes
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“In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn’t drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.” -Willie Mays
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“Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can’t find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.” -Lauren Graham
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“I didn’t get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I’ve got it back I’m waiting to restore it.” -Jay Kay
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“All the times being like, ‘Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?’ You take the easy route and go, ‘Oh, thanks for the champagne. I’ll have another.’” -Rosario Dawson
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“The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet – not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out…
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“You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I’m not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.” -John Mellencamp
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“The idea that maybe you don’t have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.” -Steve Case
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“To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.” -Emily Procter
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“I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom’s car in the middle of the night. He’d drive over to my house, I’d sneak out and we’d go out to the desert and just burn things down.” -Mark Hoppus
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“So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, ‘Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?’ I was a little kid. But those are…
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“On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.”…
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“In L.A., I don’t really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I’m sorry, I’m not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.” -Holly Madison
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“I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it’s tough.” -Olivier Martinez
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“A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.”…
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“I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don’t even have a push-button radio. It’s just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you’re driving, that’s all I want.” -Chris Isaak
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“I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don’t know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.” -Victoria Wood
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“Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.” -Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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“I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I’ve been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper – something a little stronger.” -Ellen Page
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“The way you continue to be a successful business is you don’t wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.” -Roger Goodell
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“We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It’s a lovely place to be, but it’s not extravagant.” -Reese Witherspoon
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“As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.” -Kate Smith
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“If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?” -Oskar Schindler
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“One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the…
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“I’ve worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic – whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.” -Cory Monteith
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“What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing,…
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“I am a horrible visual artist. I can’t fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don’t do than do.” -Carrie Brownstein
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“People go to car races to watch the crashes.” -Johnny Knoxville
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“Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.” -Jim Harrison
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“A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man’s position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she’s in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky’s the limit!” -Taraji P. Henson
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“I’m a crazy car guy. I’ve got an airplane hangar full of cars.” -Paul Walker
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“You know, if you’re Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: ‘I could have done that in half an hour, and it’s been done before. What’s the big deal? I expected something more from him.’ Meanwhile, they didn’t do it,…
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“We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, ‘Don’t worry about winning’: If you win I’ll get you ice cream, but if you lose I’m going to pout in the car.” -Bode…
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“I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind – you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.” -Criss…
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“I’m starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I’ve driven a lot of cars – sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there’s nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.” -Kevin O’Leary
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“I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don’t drink any more, because that’s when I thought, you know, I’m gonna end up a car wreck.” -Kristin Davis
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“I’m a big potato chip girl. I don’t like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I’ve got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can’t give up every damn thing. You need something in…
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“I’ve always been an avid reader. If I don’t have a book in the car, I’ll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don’t even remember learning to read.” -Janis Ian
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“My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.” -Laurie Anderson
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“Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn’t irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it…
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“Here’s the thing that I think about life – if you manage to get into a space where you don’t need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you’re pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to…
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“The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we…
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“I’d like to have the flying car, I think that’d be really cool.” -Rupert Grint
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“Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there’s the bad guy in the back seat. It’s infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That’s like going to bed and thinking there’s a monster under your bed. It’s silly.” -Sergio Aragones
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“I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.” -Bob Seger
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“The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.” -Tom Petty
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“The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.” -David Millar
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“If one’s honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.” -Arabella Weir
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“I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car – we didn’t have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.” -Roger Bannister
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“We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.” -Sebastian Vettel
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“I could never drive in a great big car people like me because I’m a man of the people, a hustler.” -Terry McAuliffe
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“Life’s too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.” -Garrett Hedlund
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“I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men’s college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.” -Henry Kravis
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“Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.” -Susan Faludi
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“I’m carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get ‘Okaaaaaay, honey.’ I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.” -Kristen Bell
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“When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to…
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“I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.” -Ernie Banks
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“A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.” -Rachel Bilson
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“Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.” -Dan Lipinski
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“Television is such an evolving medium. When you’re doing a TV show, it’s not like you just shoot for six weeks and you’re in an editing room with all of your footage. It’s like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what’s not working, you work on what…
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“If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies – and I have a nice house, a nice car. I’m fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.” -Chris Evans
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“It’s that I don’t like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.” -Helmut Newton
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