Top 36 Quotes About Motor Cars
#1. You call this progress, because you have motor cars and telephones and flying machines and a thousand potions to make you smell better? And people sleeping on the streets?
Howard Zinn
#2. The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Ernest Gellner
#3. I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game.
Harry Broadhurst
#4. I don't believe half of them (people in motor cars) know where they are going to, or why they are going there, or would know it if they got there
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. 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
#6. [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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
T. S. Eliot
#10. 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
#11. The untarred road wound away up the valley, innocent as yet of motor-cars, wound empty away to other villages, which lay empty too, the hot day long, waiting for the sight of a stranger. We
Laurie Lee
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.
Nevil Shute
#15. Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
Wyndham Lewis
#16. Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.
Jethro Tull
#17. Chapin was secured in the backseat - the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason - and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word.
Jeff Lindsay
#18. Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.
George R R Martin
#19. Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall
Drake
#20. 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
#21. To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.
Julianna Margulies
#22. Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.
Murray Walker
#23. But there is no such thing as safe. There is only safe than something else. Skiing and driving cars are thousands of times more dangerous than walking or cycling. Yet we never refuse to enter a motor vehicle because it "may" cause death.
Michael Specter
#24. Time had been filled, reliably, agreeably, they had not been left adrift, and for this they were truly embarrassingly grateful.
Alice Munro
#25. The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose ... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#26. And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.
Murray Walker
#27. My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.
Nicholas Kristof
#28. To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
Placido Domingo
#29. Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
Carlos Ghosn
#31. There were no other cars on the road. Just the sound of the wind, and the motor idling, and through his open window, the faint clicking sounds of Roger making another mix. I closed my eyes and let the wind whip my hair around my face, letting out a breath I hadn't known I'd been holding.
Morgan Matson
#32. We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that we were given as our neighbors on this wonderful continent the people and the nation of Canada.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#33. Music is like my security blanket.
Yoko Ono
#34. I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
Zooey Deschanel
#35. And the first five places are filled by five different cars.
Murray Walker
#36. I'd curl up with a good romance book with my current book boyfriend and pretend the real world didn't exist for a little while.
Jen McLaughlin
