Automobile Quotes

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. (Leon Trotsky)
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. View quote
Walter Chrysler
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. View quote
Bob Edwards
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. View quote
Billy Sunday
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. View quote
Will Rogers
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. View quote
Neal Barnard
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas. View quote
Ed Markey
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. View quote
Mark Kennedy
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details. (Banesh Hoffmann)
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
NEGRO Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed-not by its residents-Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis. View quote
John Brunner
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. View quote
Robert X. Cringely
I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it? View quote
Paul Newman
Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much. View quote
Peter Drucker
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation. View quote
Paul A. Baran
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. View quote
Allen Tate
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind. (Ronald Reagan)
In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself. View quote
Ferdinand Porsche
You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. View quote
Judith Viorst
If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake. View quote
Dennis Weaver