Automobile Quotes

• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

  Billy Sunday

  Funny, Hilarious, Christian

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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• It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

  George Washington Carver

  Money, Mean, Helping Others

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1987). “George Washington Carver in his own words”

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• It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

  Henrietta Mears

  Motivational, Women, Moving

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• The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Car, Shells

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 224

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• What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

  Jane Jacobs

  Men, America, Erosion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.370, Vintage

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• If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

  Brock Yates

  Art, Way, States

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• A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

  B. C. Forbes

  Business, Order, Driven

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• If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Funny, Humor, Technology

  "Noted from the field". "InfoWorld Magazine", Volume 11, Number 10, March 6, 1989.

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• What you see is what you get.

  Flip Wilson

  Cheer, Gossip Girl, Love Life

  "Character: Geraldine". "Flip", TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970-1974.

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• 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

  Community, Modern Life, Would Be

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• Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

  John Candy

  Nuts, Chicago, Bucks

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", www.imdb.com. November 25, 1987.

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• You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

  John Candy

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", 1987.

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• What you see is what you see.

  Frank Stella

  Cheer, Gossip Girl, Love Life

  Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

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• You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

  Steve Martin

  Ideas, Interesting, Stories

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• Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.

  Frank Smith

  Home, Office, People

  Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.108, Routledge

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• Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.

  James N. Frey

  Character, Writing, Interesting

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• The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

  Henry Ford

  Philosophy, Simple, Diets

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• Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Fun, Racing, Progress

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 75), 1964.

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• A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction Stories, Able, Jam

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• The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

  Russell Kirk

  Communication, Character, Men

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• Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

  Erma Bombeck

  Car, Designer, Come Up

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

  L. Frank Baum

  Reality, Talking, Imagination

  BookCaps, L. Frank Baum (2016). “The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)”, p.1645, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

  Mark Donohue

  Two, Car, Black

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• Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, Mistress, Important

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