Transportation Quotes - Page 5

• GM is pursuing gasoline-savings solutions on many fronts on the way to our ultimate vision of hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation. E85 ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline and is a renewable, domestic fuel that can enhance the nation's economy and energy security.

  Joseph Lowery

  Hydrogen Fuel, Cells, Vision

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• I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

  Malachy McCourt

  New York, People, Complaining

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Ideas, Innovation, Banking

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• Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You’re not supposed to impose your values or your supposed knowledge to manipulate or control people. That was not your job. You were not supposed to use the bully pulpit of Hollywood to pound people with ideas. You’re there to entertain.

  George Hamilton

  Jobs, Ideas, People

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant. Two units are already operational and are showing good results.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Engineering, Two

  Source: thesaker.is

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• After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

  George Clooney

  People, Car, Motorcycle

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• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fate, Thinking, America

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• The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

  Michael Moore

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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• I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

  Bill Nye

  Energy, Climate, World

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

  T. Boone Pickens

  America, Fuel, Gasoline

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• The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.

  Maggie Q

  Thinking, Years, Meat Industry

  "‘Nikita’ Star Maggie Q On What’s Ahead In Season 3 And Her New PETA Campaign". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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• I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

  Noam Chomsky

  Environmental, Cost, Speed

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Communication, Bad Day, Energy

  "Cosmic Coincidence: Asteroid Careens by as Meteor Delivers ‘Buzz Cut’ to Earth". www.pbs.org. February 15, 2013.

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• What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving Up, Moving, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

  Peter Guber

  Moving, Emotional, Want

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• Tourism is the sum total of the travel experience. It is not just what happens at the destination. It involves everything that a person sees and does from the time he or she leaves home until the vacation is over. Getting there can be half the fun, but frequently it is not. There are many great destinations in America, but, unfortunately, there are very few great journeys left, which is why it is in the interest of the tourism industry to encourage the development of greenways, heritage corridor, bike paths, hiking trails, and other forms of alternative transportation.

  Ed McMahon

  Fun, Home, Journey

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• A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

  Gustavo Petro

  Country, Rich Countries, Car

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• What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

  Serge Schmemann

  Paris, Car, Done

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• This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel

  Walter Dornberger

  Space, Eras, Firsts

  Walter Dornberger (1954). “V2”

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• It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

  Elton Gallegly

  Horse, Animal, Years

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• Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Agriculture

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.41, Penguin UK

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• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  Daniel Goldin

  Travel, Future, Air

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• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

  Gavin Newsom

  Beautiful, Hard Work, San Francisco

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• Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.

  Gordon R. Dickson

  Numbers, Our World, Use

  Gordon R. Dickson (1963). “No Room for Man”, New York : MacFadden-Bartell Corporation

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