Car Quotes - Page 35

• The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

  Arnold Bennett

  Book, Reading, Cutting

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd

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• I will build a car for the great multitude.

  Henry Ford

  Model T, Multitudes

  "My Life and Work". Book by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, 1922.

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• Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

  Henry Ford

  Airplane, Combination, Mark

  "Soaring Above Traffic In A Flying Car Sooner Than You Think" by Chuck Squatriglia, www.wired.com. December 4, 2007.

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• Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Needs, Justified

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.109, Macmillan

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• I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Mvp, Giving

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• I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

  Judd Gregg

  Thinking, Upset, Pay

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• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Honesty, Unique

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Duane Allman was one of the best there ever was ... when you listen to him, you are hearing a truly gifted individual giving his all to the music, and there is nothing better than that. Duane played music the same way that he rode his motorcycle and drove his car .. he was a daredevil, just triple Scorpio, God's-on-my-side wide open... that was part of the romance and I loved Duane. I have nothing but admiration for him

  Richard Betts

  Music, Scorpios, Giving

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• We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

  Ross Macdonald

  Games, Oil, Stuff

  Ross Macdonald (2010). “Sleeping Beauty”, p.110, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?

  Oskar Schindler

  Dog, Saws, Helping

  "Schindler : Why did he do it?" by Louis Bülow, 2010.

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• Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Water, Littles

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• There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kind, Debate, Speed

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• Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cheating, Farming, Mayors

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Shoes, House, Design

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• Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

  Tom Morello

  Resistance, Rebellion, Authority

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• A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is some kind of general and diffuse irritability or tenseness which is preventing a tired baby relaxing into sleep. The burring sound of a fan or heater works excellently. So does the sound of a car engine.

  Penelope Leach

  Baby, Tired, Sleep

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• there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable of 70 mph never trundle a smidgen over thirty. A world where alcohol never makes people drunk and is only ever consumed in moderation by responsible adults who appear to be at least 25 years old!

  Trevor Beattie

  Mph, Years, People

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• This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

  Malcolm Campbell

  Science, Race, Balance

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

  Brian R. Norris

  Nice, Drinking, Airplane

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• My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Ipods, Expectations, Promise

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• All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

  Lorrie Moore

  Lost Love, Light, People

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• The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

  Henry Ford

  Way, Pioneers, Movement

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• Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.

  Lee Clow

  Dog, Pet, Hey

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