Automobile Quotes

• People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.

  

  Robert Woodrow Wilson
  • Business
  • Company
  • Around

• He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Risk
  • Reflection
  • Trading

• What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Imagine
  • Awful
  • Automobile

• A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Culture
  • Car
  • Realizing

• I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Long
  • Way
  • City

• One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Die
  • Weekend
  • Accidents

• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Power
  • Free
  • Individual

• If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • People
  • Community
  • Design

• Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Worry
  • Engine
  • Clutch

• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's 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
  • Car
  • Air
  • Los Angeles

• It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

  

  Doris Day
  • Like
  • Body
  • Automobile

• Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Sweepstakes

• The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Automobile
  • Electrification

• What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

  

  Carroll Shelby
  • Wanted
  • Automobile

• What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Car
  • Ability
  • Initiative

• It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Lost
  • Nice
  • Progress

• Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

  

  Wolfgang Langewiesche
  • Sound
  • Differences
  • Aviation

• Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

  

  Sara Evans
  • Mind
  • Automobile
  • Wheels

• You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

  

  Charles Marion Russell
  • God
  • Horse
  • Automobile

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

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Car
  • Automobile

• (Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.

  

  William Baldwin
  • Forever
  • Clock
  • Antiques

• The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Business
  • Automobile
  • Cornerstone

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