“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.”
– Muhammad Ali
“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
– P. J. O’Rourke
“More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.”
– Brock Yates
“I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.”
– Brock Yates
“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“A car for every purse and purpose.”
– Alfred P. Sloan
“Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.”
– James Norman Hall
“Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.”
– Diane Johnson
“You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.”
– Gordon Sinclair
“Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.”
– Ingvar Kamprad
“The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.”
– Brock Yates
“No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.”
– Larry McMurtry
“Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can’t drive.”
– Bud Abbott
“I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.”
– Adam Osborne
“I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.”
– Alexandra Paul
“Fast cars are my only vice.”
– Michael Bay
“Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.”
– Paul D. Boyer
“I’ve got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you’ve got an old car, you’ve gotta have at least several old cars, ’cause one’s always gonna be in the garage.”
– Rip Torn
“Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.”
– Jay Inslee
“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 Coltrane
“You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.”
– Ed Markey
“Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!”
– Marvin Minsky
“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
“We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.”
– John Searle
“There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.”
– Mario Lopez
“I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.”
– Don Van Vliet
“We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for – to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.”
– Yuan T. Lee
“I love fast cars… and to go too fast in them.”
– Lara Flynn Boyle