Car famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.
-- A.S. King -
I really like listening to music in my car.
-- Aaron Neville -
Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
-- Aaron Neville -
Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.
-- Aaron Neville -
I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
-- Aaron Tveit -
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
-- Aaron Tveit -
My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
-- Abraham Zapruder -
I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
-- Adam Carolla -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-- Adam Carolla -
The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.
-- Adam Carolla -
My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
-- Adam Ferrara -
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
-- Adam Osborne -
YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.
-- Adam Rex -
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
-- Adam Savage -
A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)
-- Adam Selzer -
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
-- African Spir -
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.
-- Aimee Mann -
The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
-- Al Gore -
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
-- Al Jardine -
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
-- Al Jarreau -
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
-- Alain Badiou -
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
-- Alain Prost -
I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.
-- Alain Prost -
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
-- Alain Prost -
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
-- Alain Prost -
The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.
-- Alain Prost -
You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
-- Alan Bennett -
I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
-- Alan Davies -
Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.
-- Alan Finger -
I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
-- Albert Wynn -
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.
-- Alec Issigonis -
I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.
-- Alec Issigonis -
My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
-- Alex Steffen -
I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars
-- Alexa Vega -
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).
-- Alexandra Fuller -
We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.
-- Alfred W. Crosby -
Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.
-- Alicia Keys -
That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing
-- Alison Krauss -
Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
-- Alistair Cooke -
A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot
-- Allen Iverson -
Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.
-- Allison Glock -
I thought you might need a ride.' 'The headmaster's office called me a car.' He shrugged, indifferent but amused. 'And here I am in a submarine.
-- Ally Carter -
Hale." Kat sighed. "The headmaster's car? Really? That's not to cliched for you?" What can I say?" He shrugged. "I'm an old-fashioned guy. Besides, it's a classic for a reason." He leaned against the window. "It's good to see you, Kat." Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you, too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?
-- Ally Carter -
We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. It´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone.
-- Alyson Noel -
One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.
-- Alyson Noel -
I don't like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon as he got in the driver's seat, I turned to him. "Well? Can I call him?" "You really want to?" Finn asked as he started the car. "Yes, of course I do! Why is that so suprising?
-- Amanda Hocking -
I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
-- Amber Heard -
When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
-- Amy Hempel -
I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.
-- Amy Poehler -
People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.
-- Amy Weber -
I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.
-- Analeigh Tipton -
Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.
-- Andrea Jung -
I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.
-- Andy Gray -
I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.
-- Andy Milonakis -
I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.
-- Andy Murray -
My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car.
-- Angela Belcher -
If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won't get the supply over the Net.
-- Anil Ambani -
We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not important to own a particular brand of car. But we should be a brand in ourselves. Each of us is unique.
-- Anita Ratnam -
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.
-- Anita Shreve -
I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
-- Anjelica Huston -
If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.
-- Ann Coulter -
Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.
-- Ann McLane Kuster -
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
-- Anne Lamott -
Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,†I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
-- Anne Lamott -
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
-- Anne Lamott -
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
-- Anne Lamott -
You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.
-- Anne Stuart -
Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.
-- Anthony Albanese -
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious — nobody saw me.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.
-- Anton Yelchin -
The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.
-- Antony Sher -
My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.
-- Apolo Ohno -
For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
-- Apolo Ohno -
If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
-- Arabella Weir -
I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.
-- Ariel Gore
