Motor Cars Quotes

• All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

  T. S. Eliot

  Car, Familiar, Motor

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

  Edward de Bono

  Encouragement, Thinking, Car

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• I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Car, Stones, States

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6668, Delphi Classics

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• Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Fun

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe”, p.25, Random House

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• ... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  America, Car, Desire

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

  Nancy Mitford

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

  Stevie Smith

  Home, Cat, Sight

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• [Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market . . . .In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever?

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Country, Car, Competition

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• Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

  Carolyn Wells

  Girl, Book, Car

  Carolyn Wells (1915). “The White Alley”

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• Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Car, Wheels

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• Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

  Joan Robinson

  Air, Car, Choices

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press

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• When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Real, Thinking, Squares

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• The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Powerful, Real, Book

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• We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

  Menzies Campbell

  Car, Problem, Driven

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• Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Elephants, Car, Bigs

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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• The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

  Ernest Gellner

  Paris, Car, Detroit

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• In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

  Philip Gibbs

  Running, Years, Car

  Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

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• Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Car, Cinema

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• Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

  Lewis Mumford

  Cities, Car, Lovers

  "My Works and Days". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1979.

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• The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Car, Telephones, Morality

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Fanny's First Play”, p.7, 1st World Publishing

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• Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Moving, Airplane, Talking

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Past, Car

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Cycling

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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