Car Quotes

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)
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. View quote
Fred Hoyle
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? View quote
Jack Kerouac
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. View quote
E. B. White
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. (John Searle)
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. View quote
Lewis Mumford
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. View quote
Roman Polański
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him? View quote
Oskar Schindler
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. View quote
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it. View quote
Shaun Tan
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. (J. G. Ballard)
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't. View quote
Gerard Way
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates