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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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“I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.” -Woody Allen
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“(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.” -Tallulah Bankhead
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“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.” -E. B. White
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“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.” -David Suzuki
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“When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you’re mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!” -Paul McCartney
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“Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.” -Richard Dawkins
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“To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.’” -Rita Rudner
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“I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’” -Elayne Boosler
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“American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.”…
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“Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.” -Muhammad Ali
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“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love.” -Eminem
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“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.” -Steve Jobs
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“I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car’s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” -Prince Philip
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“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” -Brian Tracy
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“You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.” -Ed Markey
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“Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.” -Paul D. Boyer
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“I’ve got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you’ve got an old car, you’ve gotta have at least several old cars, ’cause one’s always gonna be in the garage.” -Rip Torn
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“Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!” -Marvin Minsky
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“I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.” -Adam Osborne
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“You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.” -Gordon Sinclair
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“Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can’t drive.” -Bud Abbott
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“No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.” -Larry McMurtry
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“Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.” -Ingvar Kamprad
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“More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.” -Brock Yates
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“Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.” -Diane Johnson
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“Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.” -Tom Arnold
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“Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.” -James Norman Hall
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“I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.” -Loretta Lynn
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“My boyfriend keeps telling me I’ve got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. ‘Why a house?’ ‘Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.’” -Julia Roberts
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“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.” -Paul Fussell
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“In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it’s gonna be so crazy!” -Glenn Danzig
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“Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.” -James Cagney
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“But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I’ve been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.” -Picabo Street
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“There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.” -Mario Lopez
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“The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life’s work complete.” -Rudolf Diesel
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“I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.” -Maurice Gibb
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“We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for – to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.” -Yuan T. Lee
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“I love fast cars… and to go too fast in them.” -Lara Flynn Boyle
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“We’re just into toys, whether it’s motorcycles or race cars or computers. I’ve got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I’ve got the world’s smallest phone. Maybe it’s just because I’m still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?” -Catherine Bell
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“I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.” -Don Van Vliet
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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 Coltrane
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“Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.” -Jay Inslee
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“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.” -Bill Gates
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“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” -George Best
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“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.” -Scott Adams
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“The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.” -Gore Vidal
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“It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” -E. L. Doctorow
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“If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.” -Doug Larson
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“I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.” -E. Joseph Cossman
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