Automotive and Cars Quotes

"Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!"

"I don't think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller - I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, 'You used to rap; what happened?'"

"I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no."

"I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer."

"Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars."

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

"If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history."

"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."

"You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good."

"Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back."

"It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on."

"Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment."

"And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension."

"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars."

"My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive."

"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."

"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."

"When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car."

"However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have."

"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car."

"I don't drive by the seat of my pants and happen to win races. I work very hard to interpret the data and drive a certain way. My engineers have confidence in me, and more often than not, when I tell them what I need or what I am feeling with the car, it's right."

"When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age."

"We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!"

"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."

"Fast cars are my only vice."

"I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool."

"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."

"I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car."

"No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war."

"To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'"

"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."

"I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars."

"I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling."

"It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself."

"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window."

"Since I started driving in F1 in 2006-07, the cars have got slower and easier to drive."

"You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool."

"Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary."

"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."

"Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection."

"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself."

"I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too."

"I had a spate of being run over between the ages of 11 and 13. I was quite a rambunctious child, I had a little moped I used to ride illegally. I got hit by cars three times because I was a very day-dreamy kid."

"I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for."

"One of the demonetization benefits, in some markets like used cars, is that organized, transparent businesses are gaining at the cost of unorganized players."

"You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas."

"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."

"Chrysler builds great cars."