Top 100 Auto Quotes
#1. I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
Penn Jillette
#2. Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in.
Dana Gould
#3. In 1953, at the beginning of the Eisenhower era and the glory years of the auto industry, Hudson's had done $153 million in retail sales; in 1981 the downtown Hudson's had done only $44 million - a figure, if adjusted for inflation, about 6 percent of the 1953 total.
David Halberstam
#4. I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
Art Alexakis
#5. Easy success had transformed the American auto companies into risk-averse, nonmeritocratic, bloated bureaucracies.
Reid Hoffman
#6. Manda and Sara are annoying because their whole belief system is in opposition to my own. They live by a Grand Theft Auto morality, by which lying, whoring, and stealing scores innumerable points.
Megan McCafferty
#7. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Dave Barry
#8. If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.
Richard DeVos
#9. War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.
Northrop Frye
#10. I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
Peter O'Toole
#11. Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.
Robert Gibbs
#12. There's a cardinal rule in book publishing that applies equally to brain surgery and auto mechanics: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Since people are still buying the original Where Is God When It Hurts?
Philip Yancey
#13. I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.
Shakuntala Devi
#14. I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.
Robert James Thomson
#15. Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well.
A.J. Liebling
#16. I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races
Jack Kerouac
#17. I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and love that really makes the thrust to the level that you want to get it to.
Emeril Lagasse
#19. Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .
Napoleon Hill
#20. When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking. - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune
Greg Milner
#21. The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.
Mark Steyn
#22. Like a valet who commits grand theft auto not to go for a joy ride but to open a used car lot, so do we seize upon love not to revel in its ecstasies but to haggle over its blue-book value.
Bauvard
#23. Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century
the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp
the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.
Walt Disney
#24. I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driver's licenses would ensure they pass a driver's test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance.
Dan Patrick
#25. A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.
Paul Laxalt
#26. I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.
Tom Hodgkinson
#27. In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.
Michael Bloomberg
#28. Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.
Dennis Miller
#29. What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.
David Foster Wallace
#30. Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".
Ron Suskind
#31. Giving someone shit, Rodney knew was a sign of love in Catholic families. And the same held true for Rodney and his friends. But he wished it weren't Keith's default setting, his auto-reply to everything.
Steve Rushin
#32. Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
Billy Crystal
#33. Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#34. Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
Wang Jianlin
#35. Bill Ford is somebody who wants to move American auto industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.
Jennifer Granholm
#36. The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.
Dennis Miller
#37. When the auto arrives it's hard to believe there's a functional vehicle underneath all the mud and moss and sprays of gravel, which stick to the sides like barnacles on a ship.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#38. To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.
Frank Zindler
#39. Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#40. Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.
Barnaby Conrad
#41. Dad was in the United Auto Workers at work so seniority was real important in our house.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#42. I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?
Temple Grandin
#43. It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.
Laurence Sterne
#44. Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc.
Charles Pelly
#45. To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
Susan Sontag
#46. Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
Aaron Patzer
#47. I'm very proud of the auto industry in Michigan.
Rick Snyder
#48. By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.
David Luiz
#49. Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
Isoroku Yamamoto
#50. I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.
Spencer Pratt
#51. She meant to write: "Is Christy here yet?"
Auto Correct turned it into: "Is crazy here yet?"
For once Auto Correct got it right.
Christy Hall
#52. It's grand theft auto." "No problem, I'll drive." Jack sighed. "No, let's not add manslaughter, being-slaughter, destruction of public property, and reckless endangerment to the list." He
Gini Koch
#53. My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
#54. Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.
Steve Albini
#55. My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
Ben Affleck
#56. It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
Jose Mujica
#57. I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.
Li Shufu
#58. A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.
Ernest Moniz
#59. I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
Fred Tomaselli
#60. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
Dennis Quaid
#61. Just wham-bam, let me get back to playing Grand Theft Auto, ma'am.
Tessa Bailey
#62. The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
Ted Strickland
#63. I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.
Stewart Udall
#64. If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.
Jennifer Granholm
#65. I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.
Eric Ries
#66. You can take a bad singer and make them sound decent; you couldn't do that in the past. With things like Pro Tools and all the other things you have available; like auto tune, and pitch correction you can make someone who can't sing into someone who can.
Michael Sweet
#67. I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.
Lindi Ortega
#68. The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
Jennifer Granholm
#69. I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
Philippe Petit
#70. Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on.
Jennifer Granholm
#71. It takes Rs. 10 per kms in Ahmedabad by auto- rickshaw, but it took us only Rs. 7 per kms to reach Mars.
Narendra Modi
#72. 2008: Drug overdoses, mostly from opiates, surpass auto fatalities as leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
Sam Quinones
#73. The brightest moments of human discovery are those unplanned and random instants when you thumb through a strange book in a foreign library or talk auto maintenance with a neuroanatomist. We need our searches to include cross-wiring and dumb accidents, too, not just algorithmic surety.
Michael Harris
#74. The popular music wasn't interesting-bad, it was bad-bad. Auto-Tuned vocalists who couldn't really sing; offensively simplistic instrumentation; grating melodies. Like they thought we were stupid.
Leila Sales
#75. I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
T-Pain
#76. A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
Joseph H. Greenberg
#77. The singer was so heavily auto-tuned she sounded like a Cylon. From the original Battlestar Galactica, I mean, not one of the sexy clone types from the reboot. After
Michael C. Bailey
#78. I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
Sxip Shirey
#79. We have to ensure politically that what's doable can indeed by translated into law, but what's not doable mustn't become European law. Otherwise, the auto industry will work somewhere with higher carbon emissions - and we can't want that.
Angela Merkel
#80. Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting.
Charles Bukowski
#81. If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.
Warren Buffett
#82. Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
Joe Biden
#83. After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#84. I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
Ferdinand Porsche
#85. The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."
Spencer Pratt
#86. Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!
Deyth Banger
#87. Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.
Ellis
#88. One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.
Henrik Fisker
#89. I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.
Barack Obama
#90. The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.
Elon Musk
#91. There are 190,000 privately-owned full-auto guns in the National Registry.
Kenneth W. Royce
#92. My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner
#93. One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.
Yukimi Nagano
#95. I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.
John Lasseter
#96. If Auto Fill is the Japanese throwing star of spreadsheets, then making charts surely is the equivalent of Japanese calligraphy. With just a few clicks of the mouse, it's possible to turn your raw data into visual presentations that will impress all who come near.
Ian Lamont
#97. Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the new. Desire is one with the auto-conducting movement of becoming.
Richard Grusin
#98. People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
Nancy Gibbs
#99. If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.
Bob Latta
#100. Even my momma asked what I'mma do. Decisions, decisions/ In case this is war, then I load up on all ammunition/ If a n
a want problems, my trigger's on auto.
J. Cole
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