Car Quotes

• 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
  • Bible

• A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.

  

  Jerry West
  • Time
  • Car
  • Door

• I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there's some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I'll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don't sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Eyes
  • Sleep
  • Car

• I can't miss an episode of 'The Apprentice'. It is car-crash T.V. Sometimes I find myself hiding behind a cushion.

  

  April Pearson
  • Car

• There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

  

  Joko Beck
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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
  • Peace
  • Car

• The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Car
  • Invented
  • Traffic Jam

• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

  

  Everett Ruess
  • Enjoy
  • Tired
  • Difficult

• Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

  

  Eric Betzig
  • Kids
  • Saturday
  • Friday

• I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Car
  • Road

• I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Good
  • Book
  • Quality

• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Broken
  • Cat
  • Aviation

• I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Real
  • Business

• I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Car
  • Automobile

• There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

  

  James Comey
  • Morning
  • Police
  • Perception

• The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.

  

  Jerry Van Dyke
  • Mother
  • Car

• There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • She
  • Mother
  • Water

• On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Night
  • Fire
  • Police

• A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

  

  Elon Musk
  • True
  • Car

• A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Car
  • Animal

• Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Done
  • Action
  • Fighting

• I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Car

• Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.

  

  Edward Glaeser
  • America
  • Car
  • Skyscraper

• This book was written in 1920 in the car of a military train and amid the flames of the civil war. The circumstance the reader must keep before his eyes if he wishes rightly to understand not only the basic material of the book, but also its harsh allusion, and particularly the tone in which it is written.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Book
  • War
  • Eyes

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