Car Quotes - Page 3

• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  Native American, College, People

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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

  Don Van Vliet

  Ghana, Driving, Automobile

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• A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  Gary Oldman

  Children, Drawing, Racing

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• There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

  Mario Lopez

  Sports, Sisterhood, Men

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• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  J. G. Ballard

  Death, Children, Tomorrow

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• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

  James Cagney

  Children, Kids, People

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• So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

  Jeff Gordon

  Race, Driving, Life Is

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• I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

  Brock Yates

  Motorcycle, Fast Car

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• I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

  James McAvoy

  Mistake, Facts, Dangerous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Fast Car

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• Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

  Jay Inslee

  Umpires, Goal, Ambitious

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• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Stay Strong, Luxury, Ikea

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

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• Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

  Marvin Minsky

  Differences, Example, Needs

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• My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

  Julia Roberts

  Boyfriend, House, Parks

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• We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

  Catherine Bell

  Kids, Phones, Race

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

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• I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

  Rip Torn

  Two, Causes, Imperfect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Witty, Happy Mothers Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

  Maurice Gibb

  Stars, Smart, Thinking

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

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• We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

  John Searle

  Umpires, Understanding, Machines

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

  Yuan T. Lee

  Ice Cream, Needs, Citizens

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• I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

  Matthew Barney

  Pregnancy, Connections, Needs

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

  Loretta Lynn

  Automobile

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

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• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  Brock Yates

  Book, Racing, Motorcycle

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