CAR QUOTES II
quotations about cars
Life's too short to drive boring cars.
ANONYMOUS
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.
J.G. BALLARD
Drive, Autumn 1971
If we can make cars that don't crash, then think about what that does to the cars we can build. Right now, what we build is cars that help you survive when you crash. But if you don't crash, do we really need to two tons of metal? Can you use other materials?
SCOTT BELCHER
"Look, No Hands! The Driverless Future of Driving Is Here"
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
FRANCOISE SAGAN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers
Money may not buy happiness, but it's better to cry in a Lamborghini.
ANONYMOUS
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone, the secondary brilliance of the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous faces and distances, or of certain miraculous geological formations, which ultimately testify to no human will, while keeping intact an image of upheaval. This form of travel admits of no exceptions: when it runs up against a known face, a familiar landscape, or some decipherable message, the spell is broken: the amnesic, ascetic, asymptotic charm of disappearance succumbs to affect and worldly semiology.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
America
Give a man a car; he will be happy for the day. Give a man a woman; he will be happy for the night. Give a man a woman who loves cars; he will be happy for life.
ANONYMOUS
The problem with traffic is that the people of today are driving the cars of tomorrow on the roads of yesterday.
BOB TALBERT
Detroit Free Press, 1987
Horns sounded from the trapped vehicles on the motorway, a despairing chorus.
J. G. BALLARD
Crash
He did not care in which direction the car was travelling, so long as he remained in the driver's seat.
MAX BEAVERBROOK
New Statesman, Jun. 14, 1963
No other man-made device since the shields and lances of ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile.
WILLIAM ROOTES
speech, 1958
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option ... they will become a necessity.
FUJIO CHO
North American International Auto Show, 2004
Cars are cars
All over the world
Similarly made
Similarly sold
In a motorcade
Abandoned when they're old
PAUL SIMON
"Cars Are Cars", Hearts and Bones
If you give some men an inch, they'll park a foreign sports car in it.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
ERMA BOMBECK
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, Book of Business Quotations
You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen Talking
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one -- and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.
HENRY FORD
My Life and Work
At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.
BROCK YATES
Cannonball!
Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.
JIM ATKINSON
"Heaven on Wheels,", Texas Monthly, Sep. 1984