Automobile Quotes - Page 7

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  Vince Cable

  Country, Couple, Years

  "Vince Cable: pure laissez-faire economics does not work" by Patrick Wintour and Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Selfish, Home

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• At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.

  W. H. Auden

  Latin, Years, Greek

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Reading"), (p. 12), 1962.

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• There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Dog, Rain

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• A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

  Luther Burbank

  Good Life, Believe, Ideas

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• I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Knives, Temptation, Dozen

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• The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

  Claude Debussy

  Age, Diligence, Aeroplanes

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• The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

  Alan Watts

  Children, Home, Long

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• Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

  Ray Bradbury

  People

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.285, Melville House

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• (Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.

  William Baldwin

  Should Have, Years, Forever

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• Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Party, Government, Organization

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• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  Walter Chrysler

  Mean, Water, Railroads

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• I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

  Jim DeMint

  Strong, Car, Want

  "GOP Auto Bailout Critic Outlines Rationale". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.

  Noam Chomsky

  Horse, Bigs, Big Changes

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

  Radhanath Swami

  Father, Struggle, Long

  "A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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• As for uniqueness, this is virtually nonexistent! And it's a shame that people think they're unique because they have a face ring, retro clothing, colorful hair, drive a certain kind of automobile or listen to some obscure musician.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Thinking, Unique, Hair

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

  Brock Yates

  Running, New York, Moon

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• The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.

  Brock Yates

  Men, Thinking, Motor Racing

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.102, MotorBooks International

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• I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

  Don Van Vliet

  Ghana, Car, Driving

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• At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.

  Brock Yates

  Ak 47, Iron, Car

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• NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.

  John Brunner

  Military, Epidemics, Race

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.

  Reed Hastings

  Horse, Years, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Kids, Thinking, Waiting

  "Interview: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern on Jobs". Interview With Zaki Hasan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

  Bob Edwards

  Funny, Problem, Said

  Bob Edwards (1976). “The wit & wisdom of Bob Edwards”

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• Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, House, Posts

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