Used Car Quotes:

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

- Louis Simpson

source: Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.195, BOA Editions, Ltd.

topic: Car, Used Car, Used, Open Road

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

- Larry Lujack

topic: Teenage, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Used Car, Good Chance

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Gun, Two, America, Qualms, Qualms About

All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car.

- Woody Allen

topic: Eye, Car, Driving, Used Car

I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Funny, Humor, Wife, Used Car

There's conflict in everything, just trying to buy a used car you deal with people that you don't want to deal with, you know, that's just the way of life, nothing stops changing, you're always going to have the conflict till your last breath, I mean on your deathbed, arguing with the doctor who's going to pay the bill, you know, it's just the reality of it, so none of that ever goes away.

- Maynard James Keenan

source: Source: voidau.com

topic: Mean, Reality, Doctors, Used Car

A survey has shown that the average man has had sex in a car 15 times. Something to keep in mind next time you're looking for a used car.

- Jay Leno

topic: Sex, Men, Average, Used Car

I'm a dealer. That's exactly right. I'm a used car dealer.

- Bernie Ecclestone

source: Source: www.topgear.com

topic: Car, Used, Dealer, Used Car, Car Dealer

The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?

- Meg Whitman

topic: Business, Thinking, Research And Development, Headquarters, Used Car

I did many other things before I ever got into the movies. I've been in so many businesses, it's a joke. All of them totally unsuited to me. Selling used cars. Running a club in London.

- Sean Connery

source: "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

topic: Running, Car, Clubs, Used Car

If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.

- Fran Lebowitz

source: Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

topic: Writing, Fate, Car, Inevitable Fate, Used Car

The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

- Ray Wise

topic: Games, Car, Style, Used Car, Car Salesman

I think the way I do things would be difficult to teach somebody to do. They need to get another good used car dealer. That's what they need. Find a good car dealer.

- Bernie Ecclestone

source: Source: www.topgear.com

topic: Thinking, Car, Would Be, Used Car, Car Dealer

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

- Elizabeth McCracken

source: Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.7, Random House

topic: Car, People, Personality, Used Car, Car Salesman

I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Car, Used, Babysitter, Used Car

Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.

- Richard Jeni

topic: Country, Military, People, Kickass, Used Car

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

- Carl Sagan

topic: Used Car

I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.

- David Plouffe

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Running, Brother, Men, Used Car, Younger Brother

Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.

- Wolfgang Puck

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Years, Car, Thirty, Used Car, Car Salesman

Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. I’ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesn’t really matter.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.102, Anchor

topic: Mother, Believe, Moving, Used Car

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

- Bess Truman

source: Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.14, Truman State University Press

topic: Turtles, Car, Used, Used Car

The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.

- Rachel Caine

topic: Running, Car, One Day, Used Car, Monica

Let's face it, the human body is like a condominium apartment. The thing that keeps you really enjoying it is the maintenance. There's a tremendous amount of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work that has to be done. From showering to open heart surgery, we're always doing something to ourselves. If your body was a used car, you wouldn't buy it.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Heart, Car, Faces, Used Car, Heart Surgery

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

- Martin Gardner

topic: Real, Self, Car, Used Car, Car Salesman

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

- Mike Huckabee

topic: Divorce, America, Car, Used Car

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

- Billy Childish

source: "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 2, 2006.

topic: Car, People, Looks, Used Car, Car Salesman

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

- Frank Zappa

source: Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

topic: Naughty, America, Car, Used Car, Car Salesman

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

- Cher

topic: Home, Car, Politics, Used Car, Car Salesman

I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work, I don't care what color it is. I don't want people to recognize my car in case I want to commit a crime.

- John Waters

source: Source: blog.sfgate.com

topic: Men, Color, People, Used Car

Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

- Nancy Mairs

topic: Children, Car, Soul, Used Car, Assembly Line

Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside music festival before thousands of cheering fans. He conveys the thrills and challenges of living abroad, the confusions and regrets, and most of all the opportunity to become the person we always hoped to be.

- Peter Hessler

topic: Regret, Cheer, Opportunity, Living Abroad, Music Festival

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.

- Vin Diesel

topic: Mother, Book, Car, Used Car, Schmidt

Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In the ‘Everyone Deserves a Trophy’ society we live in, it’s refreshing to know that Jim’s literary voice will cut through the politics, using the American spirit of a used car dealer.

- Lars Larson

topic: Cutting, Government, Voice, Used Car, Car Dealer