Automobile Quotes - Page 9

• In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Thinking, Civilization, Desire

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• A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

  Stewart Udall

  Land, Cities, Space

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• In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.

  Daniel Handler

  Men, People, Worry

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• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

  Hal Borland

  Work, Humble, Airplane

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

  John Cheever

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  John Cheever (2016). “The Jewels of the Cabots”, p.13, Vintage

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• So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

  Allen Tate

  Perfect, Interesting, Want

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

  C. Wright Mills

  Way, Entertainment, Distraction

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

  C. Wright Mills

  Respect, Shadow, Cash

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

  John Nance Garner

  Government, President, Vices

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• They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fuel, Efficiency, China

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• You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

  John Raese

  Running, Firsts, Rebirth

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• We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

  Car, History, World

  "The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything". Daily Telegram #1355 (syndicated column). "Will Roger's Daily Telegrams, The Hoover Years, 1929-1931". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Trying, Rotation

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• Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Ocean, Sea, Sky

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• So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Names, People

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• And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

  Don Panoz

  Want, Company

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• The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Air, Cities, Long

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

  Sophia Loren

  Jewels, House, Mind

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.

  M. King Hubbert

  Years, Growth, Population

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• And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.

  Peter Drucker

  Horse, Cities, People

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.290, Routledge

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• Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

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• I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

  Paul Newman

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Party, People

  "From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.

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• Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!

  Luigi Russolo

  Heart, Blow, Years

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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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