Quotes on Car

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

Author: Bud Abbott

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

Author: Casey Abrams

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

Author: Lauren Alaina

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.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Author: Woody Allen

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

Author: Herb Alpert

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

Author: Laurie Anderson

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Author: Sergio Aragones

We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.

Author: Brody Armstrong

When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country?

Author: Sherman Austin

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

Author: Randy Bachman

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

Author: Kevin Bacon

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Author: Walter Bagehot

When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

Author: Buck Baker

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

Author: Buck Baker

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Author: Russell Baker

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Author: Jim Bakker

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.

Author: J. Ballard

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

Author: Ernie Banks

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Author: Roger Bannister

I don't know how to drive a car.

Author: Javier Bardem

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

Author: Michael Barnes

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

Author: Matthew Barney

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

Author: Dave Barry

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Author: Dave Barry

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Author: Michael Behe

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

Author: Kristen Bell

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Author: Eleanor Belmont

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.

Author: Elmer Bernstein

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

Author: Marion Berry

My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.

Author: Rachel Bilson

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Author: Jim Bishop

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

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

Author: Erma Bombeck

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

Author: Erma Bombeck

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

Author: Erma Bombeck

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Author: Erma Bombeck

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

Author: Erma Bombeck

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Author: Edward Bono

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Author: Edward Bono

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

Author: Geoffrey Boycott

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Author: Richard Branson

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

Author: Edie Brickell

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

Author: Dan Brown

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Author: Rita Brown

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.

Author: Barbara Bush

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Author: David Byrne

Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

Author: Naomi Campbell

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

Author: Nick Cannon

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

Author: Frank Carson

Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.

Author: Nancy Cartwright

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

Author: John Carver

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

Author: Joyce Cary

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

Author: Steve Case

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

Author: June Cash

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

Author: Rosanne Cash

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Author: Mary Cheney

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.

Author: Connie Chung

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Author: Patsy Cline

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Author: Patsy Cline

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

Author: Joel Coen

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

Author: Gary Cole

In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.

Author: Bill Conti

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Author: Coolio

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'

Author: Tommy Cooper

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Author: Barry Corbin

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Author: Billy Corgan

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Author: Doug Coupland

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

Author: Richard Daley

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Author: Charles Dance

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

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Author: William Daniels

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Author: Bobby Darin

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Author: Evan Davis

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

Author: Kristin Davis

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Author: Marc Davis

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'

Author: Rosario Dawson

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

Author: Taylor Dayne

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

Author: Gavin DeGraw

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

Author: Vin Diesel

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

Author: Larry Dixon

We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

Author: Larry Dixon

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Author: E. Doctorow

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

Author: Trevor Dunn

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Author: Roger Ebert

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.

Author: David Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Author: David Ellis

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

Author: David Ellis

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.

Author: Eminem

We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.

Author: Jimmy Fallon

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

Author: Jimmy Fallon

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Author: Susan Faludi

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

Author: Juan Fangio

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

Author: Dakota Fanning

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

Author: Michael Fassbender

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

Author: Tom Felton

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

Author: Tom Felton

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Author: Michael Frayn

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Author: Martha Gellhorn

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Author: Roland Gift

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

Author: Paul Glaser

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

Author: Tracey Gold

I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.

Author: Tracey Gold

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

Author: Tracey Gold

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Author: Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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.

Author: Ellen Goodman

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

Author: Jeff Gordon

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

Author: Stone Gossard

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

Author: Stone Gossard

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

Author: Stone Gossard

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Author: Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

Author: Richard Gough

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Author: Lauren Graham

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

Author: Wilson Greatbatch

Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

Author: Daniel Greenberg

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

Author: Judd Gregg

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

Author: David Grier

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.

Author: Rupert Grint

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Author: Merle Haggard

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

Author: Merle Haggard

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Author: Larry Hagman

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

Author: Conrad Hall

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

Author: Tom Hall

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

Author: Daryl Hannah

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Author: Jim Harrison

I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.

Author: Melissa Hart

You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.

Author: Patty Hearst

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

Author: Christie Hefner

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

Author: Jaime Hernandez

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

Author: Eva Herzigova

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Author: Patricia Highsmith

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

Author: Betty Hill

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

Author: Graham Hill

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

Author: James Hillman

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Author: Billie Holiday

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Author: Tom Holt

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

Author: Mark Hoppus

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Author: Fred Hoyle

But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?

Author: Tom Hunter