Car Quotes - Page 31

• You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!

  Homer

  Balls, Antenna, Should

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• When I was 12 years old, I was just horrible. My parents were ashamed to watch my matches. I would play on a court at the local club and they would watch from the balcony. They would scream, 'Be quiet' to me and I would scream back, 'Go and have a drink. Leave me alone.' Then we would drive home in a very quiet car. No one speaking to each other.

  Roger Federer

  Home, Years, Play

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• A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Mean, Cutting

  "Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 18, 1963.

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• The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

  Robert Lowell

  Grease, Giants, Savages

  "For the Union Dead" l. 65 (1964)

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• Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

  Thom Yorke

  Brother, Twins, Airbags

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• I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.

  Thom Yorke

  Hate, Toxic, Fans

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• I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.

  Thom Yorke

  Eye, Climbing, Doors

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• If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

  Thom Yorke

  Chocolate, Ruins, Made

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• In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and a full life.

  Jan Gehl

  Home, Cities, Shopping

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• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Political, Machinery, Fixed

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• If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicide, Suicidal, Media

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• If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

  Glenn Beck

  Home, Ifs

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• The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

  Jackie Stewart

  Wings, Years, Tyres

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• If you were charged with fixing the U.S. auto industry, how would you do it?
  
  The guys who run the auto companies are out of touch with their customers and their employees. They ride to work in their limousines. They go up in their elevators and lock themselves in their offices. They don't walk out into the plants. They wouldn't even drive in the neighborhoods where their employees live. They give themselves big bonuses when the company isn't making any money. I'd make them get involved with the people who are building the cars. They've got to become real people.

  Ken Hendricks

  Running, Business, Real

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• In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Men, June

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

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• Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Crazy, Thinking

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

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• Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

  Julian Fellowes

  Christmas, Character, Special

  "More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. February 19, 2013.

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• People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Christmas, People, Nannies

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• The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

  Russell Baker

  People, Yesteryear, Modern Life

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

  Melinda Gates

  Depression, Suicidal, Thinking

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• A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.

  Robert Henry Grant

  Leadership, Running, Responsibility

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• It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.

  Bill McKibben

  Crazy, Taken, Our Generation

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• Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.

  Will Durst

  Women, Speeding, One Thing

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• If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Thinking, Towns, Fame

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