Automobile Quotes - Page 2

• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

  Judith Viorst

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

  "The Problem Behind All Problems". Book by Michael Hansbury, 2009.

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• There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Writing, Men

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 73, 1975.

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Airplane, Technology, Men

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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

  Loretta Lynn

  Car

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.2, Vintage

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• The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

  Philip Johnson

  Cities, Architecture, Catastrophe

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

  Doris Day

  Body, Said, Has Beens

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• As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Average, Car, Progress

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• Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dentist, Mechanic

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 73, 1975.

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• [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Jobs, Animal

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.89, Penguin

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• In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Dream, Findings, Decided

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• Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

  Bill James

  Airplane, People, Computer

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• Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Running, Men, Order

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

  Sara Evans

  Mind, Wheels

  Song: Words Are Your Wheels

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• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Thinking, People

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks

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• The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, People, Evil

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Perspective, Important, Able

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Determination, Gun, Race

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Thinking, People, Ifs

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Society, Literature

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

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• The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Car, Lost, Enormous

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• One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over their whole lifetime, is our need to very rapidly evaluate other people. And one of the most potent ways of doing that is through our automobiles. So, a car isn't just a thing. It's a set of symbols and associations that we have to figure out in order to understand how we navigate our social worlds with that car.

  Paul Solman

  Order, Car, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies of what you're recycling. If all you're doing is recycling - if you've got three automobiles, and 10 children, and a 7,000-square-foot dot-com palace and second home up in the mountains that has to be heated - the recycling isn't making much difference.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Children, Home, Squares

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• As an automobile needs premium fuel to operate well, our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health. Packaged food creates dis-ease. There’s no nourishment in it. The body can only handle it for so long. Then, when you do have a problem, you usually take an over-the-counter or prescription drug. This is another form of poison.

  Louise Hay

  Real, Long, Drug

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• I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

  Bikram Choudhury

  Sports, Yoga, Drug

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• Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

  Diane Johnson

  Car, Waste, Wasting Time

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