Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. — Lewis Mumford
Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty. — Rod Stewart
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. — Marshall McLuhan
You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. — Shai Agassi
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. — Brock Yates
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. — Iris Murdoch
Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse. — Juan Manuel Fangio
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity. — Fujio Cho
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. — Henry Ford
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women. — P. J. O'Rourke
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. — Richard Petty
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. — Robert X. Cringely
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti
In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere. — Maxim Gorky
Short Motor Cars Quotes
roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you. — Jeremy Clarkson
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
A critic is someone who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast. — Alain Prost
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game. — Harry Broadhurst
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy. — Jon Winokur
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others. — Ayrton Senna
Car Engine Quotes
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
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. — Suzi Quatro
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. — Keith Duckworth
You might not have a car or big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.
Visualizing your dreams and doing nothing about them is like setting the sat-nav in your car but refusing to turn the engine on. The law of attraction is nothing without the law of action. — Steven Bartlett
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. — C. S. Lewis
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality. — Sebastian Thrun
It's not about the car you drive. It's about the size of the arm hanging out of the windows.
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car. — Mario Andretti
I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this. — Alec Issigonis
Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running. — Ben Bernanke
Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine. — Paul Cookson
Motor Vehicles Quotes
A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible. — Enrique Penalosa
And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. — Tim Holden
Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle? — Brad Warner
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars, the rest I just squandered.
Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time. — Edwin Feulner
I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake. — Greg Behrendt
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles. — P. J. O'Rourke
I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity. — Ralph Nader
Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot. — Shelby Harris
But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you. — Dave Barry
... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved. — Garrison Keillor
Automobile Quotes
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. — Billy Sunday
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. — Rod Serling
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. — George Washington Carver
In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself. — Ferdinand Porsche
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. — Neal Barnard
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. — Mark Donohue
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet. — Dorothy Denning
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. — Wilson Greatbatch
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s - as telephone, electricity, and the automobile were emerging - the US equity market cap relative to GDP appears to have been 2-3 times higher than it is today. We need to verify this difficult-to-get data but, if true, I have a hypothesis. — Cathie Wood
Motor Racing Quotes
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
Mansell can see him in his earphone. — Murray Walker
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him — Murray Walker
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts — James Hunt
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. — Murray Walker
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. — Ayrton Senna
Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that. — Kimi Raikkonen
Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position. — Murray Walker
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays. — Colin Chapman
Big Cars Quotes
You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change — Snoop Dogg
A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot — Allen Iverson
I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies. — Debbie Reynolds
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile. — Jennifer Garner
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
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym. — Bill Nye
Success can never be measured by big houses, luxury cars, or fancy clothes. For me, greatness can only be measured by what we do for others… — Chatri Sityodtong
I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take. — Anjelica Huston
(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight. — Dorothy Parker
A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite — Robert Kiyosaki
Motor Oil Quotes
Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension. — Cornelius Plantinga
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years. — Will Rogers
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. — Ted Danson
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil. — John Lasseter
I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct. — Renny Harlin
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill. — Kelley Armstrong
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up? — Jonathan Haidt
I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead. — Warren Zevon
Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem? — Wendelin Van Draanen
Motorcycle Quotes
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear. — Milan Kundera
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson
Joining a band of brothers together, a group with one common interest or mission, whether as a company, a team, or a motorcycle club, requires not only a commitment to loyalty but an understanding of self-preservati on as well. — Sonny Barger
If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle. — Junaid Jamshed
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. — Mary Kay Blakely
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime. — Burt Munro
Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles. — John Wayne
Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion. — Sonny Barger
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. — Mary Blakely
Motor Quotes
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. — Roman Jakobson
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter. — Sam Manekshaw
I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes. — Ross Perot
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. — G. Stanley Hall
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. — Barbara Johnson
My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me. — Sean Astin
When we exercise, the brain structure changes to accommodate - especially in motor regions and areas that need more oxygen. Increased physical activity is associated with LARGER brain volumes and thicker cortical regions - which is linked to intelligence. — Rhonda Patrick
Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present. — Peter Behrens
I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other. — Barbara Kruger
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal? — Rachel Carson
Nice Cars Quotes
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
I've never had the Lord say, 'Jesse, I think that car is a little bit too nice.' I've had vehicles and the Lord said, 'Would you please go park that at your house. Don't put that in front of my house. I don't want people to think that I'm a poor God.' — Jesse Duplantis
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. — Richard Pryor
Some random dude just said this to me: 'I know people always ask you for money so I won't. A car would be nice though.' — MrBeast
I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car and I'm proud to have it. — Lauren Lee Smith
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right? — J. Cole
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
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not. — Ellen DeGeneres
I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it. — Liam Payne
Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more. — Ice Cube
And the first five places are filled by five different cars. — Murray Walker
And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race. — Murray Walker
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. — Ernest Hemingway
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? — George Bernard Shaw
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on. — Wayne Thiebaud
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. — Ernest Gellner
Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in? — Joan Robinson
And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. — Murray Walker
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car. — Bill Bryson
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne
I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me. — D. H. Lawrence
I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate. — Stevie Smith
The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere. — Ayn Rand
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. — Marshall McLuhan
And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car. — Murray Walker
The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized. — Henry Ford
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work. — Craig Johnston
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe. — John B. S. Haldane
We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. — Kurt Vonnegut
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. — T. S. Eliot
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order. — Maggie Scarf
there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable of 70 mph never trundle a smidgen over thirty. A world where alcohol never makes people drunk and is only ever consumed in moderation by responsible adults who appear to be at least 25 years old! — Trevor Beattie
and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. — T. S. Eliot
It isn't easy for me to have contact with the industry, because it is so outdated. Look at General Motors, look at -Mercedes, look at Chrysler, look at Porsche, look at BMW . . . They are all building cars from yesterday! Nobody has an idea how the car of tomorrow should look. I've built them already. I have the prototypes in my exhibition, but they won't do it. — Luigi Colani
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June. — Virginia Woolf
Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while. — Edward Abbey
The rich man has his motor car, His country and his town estateHe smokes a fifty-cent cigarAnd jeers at fate.Yet though my lamp burn low and dim,Though I must slave for livelihood,Think you that I would change with him?You bet I would! — Franklin Pierce Adams
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
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car. — Carroll Shelby
Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry. — Elon Musk
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