Automobile Quotes - Page 2

• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

  Judith Viorst

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

  "The Problem Behind All Problems". Book by Michael Hansbury, 2009.

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• There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Writing, Men

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 73, 1975.

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• I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

  Loretta Lynn

  Car

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.2, Vintage

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Airplane, Technology, Men

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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• The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

  Philip Johnson

  Cities, Architecture, Catastrophe

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• As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Average, Car, Progress

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• It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

  Doris Day

  Body, Said, Has Beens

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• [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Jobs, Animal

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.89, Penguin

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• Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dentist, Mechanic

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 73, 1975.

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• In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Dream, Findings, Decided

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• Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

  Bill James

  Airplane, People, Computer

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• Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Running, Men, Order

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• Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

  Sara Evans

  Mind, Wheels

  Song: Words Are Your Wheels

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• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Thinking, People

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks

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• The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, People, Evil

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Sleep, Night, Two

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• I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge fan of all the Second City talent, and I think my Dad and Bill Murray are long lost twins.

  Ryan McPartlin

  Dad, Thinking, Cities

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Oil, Nuclear, Coal

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

  Leslie Moonves

  Horse, Hands, Our World

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• But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Home, People

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• The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

  Charles Mengel Allen

  Boards, Use, Driving

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• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  Jack Vance

  Airplane

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• We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

  Paul Goldberger

  New York, Car, Shapes

  "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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• At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Grandchildren, Years

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