quotations about cars
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
Toyota's getting a lot of attention. Yeah, Toyota has unveiled a new state of the art design for a car of the future. Yeah. The car is so advanced that when it's recalled it can actually drive itself back to the Toyota dealer.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, Nov. 29, 2011
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
Depression and the Body
For the most part, Americans without cars are very young, very old, disabled, or live in Manhattan.
DANIEL SPERLING & DEBORAH GORDON
Two Billion Cars
Cars are to the landscape what television sets are to interior decor--an unattractive necessity. For better or for worse, our lives are structured around these machines.
MARY RILEY SMITH
The Front Garden
I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.
SAM SHEPARD
Curse of the Starving Class
I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.
JIM BUTCHER
Summer Knight
One has to go back a while to recall a time when cars were simply means of transportation. In those days, they were just considered automobiles. Today, cars are extensions of their owners. They make statements about the character and status of their owners. They are loved, polished and pampered by some owners. They elicit a wide range of emotions, ranging from exasperation when they don't work to pure delight when they are expensive, beautiful and drive like a dream. They cause people to stare and drool and say "Some day...."
ANONYMOUS
"Celebrities and Their Favorite Cars", Ebony Magazine, Nov. 1987
I also tend to like cars that need me. To me, cars are like old screen doors. I know that if I jiggle the latch and move it this way, it will open for me and no one else. And that's the kind of cars I like. So I'm the worst possible kind of consumer to do a test on. I like idiosyncratic things. I mean Bugatti had that hard-to-make hollow front axle and mechanical brakes, long after everybody else changed to hydraulics. But that's what gives Bugattis character, and that's what makes them interesting to me.
JAY LENO
Popular Mechanics, Feb. 2000
She's not just four wheels and an engine. She's home.
ANONYMOUS
Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
MITCH HEDBERG
stand-up routine
As the cars go by
Under the sun like an enemy
You wonder, you wonder, you wonder
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
"Miles Away"
I don't even like old cars ... I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
J. D. SALINGER
The Catcher in the Rye
The car, the furniture, the wife, the children--everything had to be disposable. Because you see, the main thing today is shopping.
ARTHUR MILLER
The Price
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
Wanderlust
Cotton fields stretching miles and miles
Hank's voice on the radio
Telephone poles, trees, and wires fly on by
Car wheels on a gravel road
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
"Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"
Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
Cars belong to a physical world of escalating waste and declining green space, a world of environmental degradation, an asphalt nation in which we live and breathe. Car culture is forever bound to the historical relations of modern capitalist production and consumption.
AMY L. BEST
Fast Cars
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
Call for the Dead