Car Quotes - Page 5

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Racing, Firsts

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• See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Past, Done, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

  James Hillman

  Children, Kids, Doctors

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Missing, World, Body

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.196, Penguin

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• Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.

  Patricia Briggs

  Running, Too Much, Never Trust

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.47, Penguin

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• Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Real, Together, Teeth

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

  John Lydon

  Nice, Moving, Mean

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.

  Dave Ramsey

  Jobs, Play, People

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• I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

  Craig Johnston

  Flower, Sunshine, Mind

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• I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

  Adam Osborne

  Fog, People, Giving

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• Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

  Bud Abbott

  Driven, Wells, Stills

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Diane Johnson

  Waste, Wasting Time, Realizing

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  Ed Markey

  Waiting, Six Months, Fuel

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, May 5, 2005.

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• Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

  James Norman Hall

  Community, Lost Friendship, Identity

  "Under a Thatched Roof".

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• When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
  My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

  Henny Youngman

  Husband, Men, Doors

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• I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game.

  Harry Broadhurst

  Airplane, Mean, Games

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• Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks.

  Ettore Bugatti

  Racing, Truck, Bentley

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Long

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• If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Technology, Driving

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

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• Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Erosion, Ideas

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• Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

  Pete Townshend

  Moon, Glasses, Doors

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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• Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

  Eric Bana

  Facts, Lifetime, Venues

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• During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

  Cale Yarborough

  Baby, Men, Race

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• We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Oil, Jogging, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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