Car Quotes - Page 24

• Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Armor, Weapons

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• ...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Mastery

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

  Susan Sontag

  Life, Spiritual, Athlete

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• I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

  Paul Simon

  Dream, Writing, Night

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• The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has a picture of Bart Simpson on it or little suction cups on its feet so you can stick it onto a car window.

  Dave Barry

  Art, Average, Feet

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.146, Crown Archetype

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• I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

  Henny Youngman

  Lakes, Water, Wife

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• There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

  Merle Haggard

  Kids, Guitar, Two

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• There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.

  Steven M. Greer

  Military, Police, Radio

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  Olivier Martinez

  Stars, Years, Boxing

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

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• Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

  Stirling Moss

  Years, Motorcycle, Racing

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• There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

  Jimmy Thompson

  Boys, Men, Track

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• I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

  O. J. Simpson

  Sports, Children, Kids

  O. J. Simpson, Pete Axthelm (1970). “O. J.: the education of a rich rookie”

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• The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!"

  Lewis Black

  Yelling, Three, Lasts

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• I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

  Jay Leno

  Noble, Claire, Standards

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• Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid

  Jay Leno

  Kids, People, Safety

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• I believe engineers will save the world.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, World, Engineers

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• I was born the day I got my license. When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere and see things, you have to get in your car and actually go.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Born, Wanted

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• The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Iphone, Century

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• Anybody who gives their car to a valet isn't a car guy

  Jay Leno

  Giving, Guy, Valet

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• If there isn't a parking space out front or I can't see my car from the window, we're eating somewhere else.

  Jay Leno

  Somewhere Else, Space, Window

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• Regulations force people to do better.

  Jay Leno

  People, Regulation, Force

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• When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.

  Jay Leno

  Hands, Talking, Appreciate

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• Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

  Jay Leno

  Appreciate, Everyday, Drink

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• Today, you get better performance from a Ford Focus than a Ferrari from the mid-70s. [The Focus] is just as fast and with better fuel economy. It's fun to see supercar technology trickle down to everyday cars.

  Jay Leno

  Fun, Technology, Focus

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• When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.

  Jay Leno

  Self Worth, Hands, Giving

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