Motor Car Quotes

#1. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

John Banville

#2. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.

Annie Proulx

#3. Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

Marshall McLuhan

#4. Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. 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

#6. Forget the damned motor car and built cities for lovers and friends .

Lewis Mumford

#7. When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.

Henry Allingham

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

Jay Kay

#11. 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

#12. What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

George Bernard Shaw

#13. 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

#14. One day I hoped some thoughtful historian would point out the close connection between the Mercedes-Benz motor car and Germany's favorite dictator and that the Lord would find a way to pay these bastards back for their help in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there.

Philip Kerr

#15. The motor-car, in brining us all closer together, by making it easy to have luncheon two counties away, has driven us all further apart, by making it unnecessary for us to know the people in the next bungalow. And so, once again, we have to thank civilization for nothing.

Ronald Knox

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

Carolyn Wells

#17. When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

#18. I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.

Richard Murdoch

#19. Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

Charles Lindbergh

#20. Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward De Bono

#21. If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.

Martin Jacques

#22. Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming..

Henry Ford

#23. Drowned in the lake, ravished by gypsies, struck by a passing motor car, she thought ritually, a sound principle being that nothing was ever as one imagined it, and this was an efficient means of excluding the worst.

Ian McEwan

#24. The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, As it raced along the road. Who was it steered it into a pond? Ingenious Mr. Toad!

Kenneth Grahame

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

Edward De Bono

#26. It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

Helmut Newton

#27. 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.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#28. It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

Mario Andretti

#29. Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

Jonathan Haidt

#30. No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.

James Hetfield

#31. Ranger slung an arm around my shoulders and kissed me on the top of my head. "Someday I need to talk to you about car care." "I know about car care. I kept a case of motor oil in the back." "That's my girl.

Janet Evanovich

#32. [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

#33. A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

Anthony Burgess

#34. Isle with a Car Lust look back at what may be the most famous motor vehicle ever assembled there. Of course we're

Anonymous

#35. The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

#36. Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

P. J. O'Rourke

#37. What's behind you doesn't matter.

Enzo Ferrari

#38. And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Murray Walker

#39. I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

Craig Johnston

#40. And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

Murray Walker

#41. 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

#42. He'd never been the materialistic type, anyway. As evidenced by the fact that, currently, he slept in a tent and drove a mustang. The real kind of mustang, lower case, and not the upper-case car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.

Elizabeth Bevarly

#43. Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit.

John Knowles

#44. Consider this:
1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD?
And here's a bonus question:
2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

Brad Warner

#45. 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

#46. I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.

James E. Faust

#47. Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.

Jethro Tull

#48. Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

Jeb Hensarling

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

Stirling Moss

#52. 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

#53. Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Wyndham Lewis

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

Ernest Gellner

#56. The next morning he drove the stranger's car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver's license. He suddenly realized he had left his name at the prison.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#57. And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

Murray Walker

#58. Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

Elon Musk

#59. Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

Maggie Scarf