Car Quotes - Page 30

• I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars.

  Alexa Vega

  Sister, Needs, Four

  "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

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• There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.

  James Hunt

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

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• Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

  James Hunt

  Wrecks, Grids, Shaking

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• I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.

  Eddie Vedder

  Long, Guy, Rooftops

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• It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Writing, Leaving

  "He Didn't Ask for All This". Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994.

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• I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

  Medgar Evers

  Fighting, America, Soldier

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• The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.

  George W. Bush

  Comfort, United States, Tactics

  "In Bush’s Words: ’We Have the Right Strategy’ on Iraq". News conference in Washington, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2003.

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• Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I like Roy Orbison's video for I Drove All Night because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.

  Richard Ayoade

  Night, Men, Video

  "'I really don't think I'm cool'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing

  Willie Mays

  Community, Giants, Mercury

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Fall, Rocks

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• A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot

  Allen Iverson

  Men, Fancy Cars, Shoes

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• I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

  Grover Norquist

  Exercise, Murder Mysteries, Trying

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2004.

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• Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Trying, Administration

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

  William J. Clinton

  Future, People, Giving

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• Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

  St. Vincent

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Imterview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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• My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Inspirational, Basketball, Hero

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• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Writing, Successful

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• When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

  Nick Mason

  Marketing, Band, Management

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• I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

  Ernie Banks

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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  "Daybooks".

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• In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Blood, Hands

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Tears, Faces, Fantasy

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.263, Faber & Faber

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• When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

  Richard Avedon

  Dog, Taken, Home

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• When your car is about to go off a cliff, it’s a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action—look out the window and steer or use the brake until you’re back on course.

  Michael Bolton

  Thinking, Looks, Use

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

  William James

  Life, Success, Strong

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