Motor Cars Quotes:

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Car, Familiar, Motor, Motor Cars

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

- Bill Bryson

source: Bill Bryson (2010). “Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe”, p.25, Random House

topic: Inspirational, Sarcastic, Fun, Motor Cars, Eating Dinner

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Encouragement, Thinking, Car, Motor Cars

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Car, Stones, States, Motor Cars

... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

topic: America, Car, Desire, Recruit, Motor Cars

If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

source: Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

topic: Horse, Eye, Passion, Motor Cars, Pedestrians

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

- Henry Hazlitt

topic: Powerful, Real, Book, Motor Cars, Real Wealth

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

- Wayne Thiebaud

topic: Real, Thinking, Air, Motor Cars, Worlds Apart

[Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market . . . .In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever?

- Alfred P. Sloan

topic: Motor Cars

I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

- Stevie Smith

topic: Cat, Home, Sight, Galloping, Motor Cars

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

- Joan Robinson

source: Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press

topic: Air, Car, Choices, Motor Cars, Pricing

Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

- Dylan Thomas

source: Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

topic: Horse, Sunday, Past, Wales, Sunday Afternoons

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Girl, Book, Car, Motor Cars

Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

- Nancy Mitford

source: Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

topic: Morning, Coffee, Night, Up All Night, Motor Cars

We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

- Menzies Campbell

topic: Car, Problem, Driven, Motor Cars, Petrol

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

- Wyndham Lewis

topic: Elephants, Car, Bigs, Motor Cars

Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Home, Car, Privacy, Transport, Motor Cars

Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.

- Jethro Tull

topic: Reality, Car, World, Motor Cars

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

- Edward de Bono

topic: Car, Perfect, Firsts, Motor Cars

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

- Ernest Gellner

topic: Paris, Car, Obscurity, Motor Cars

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

- Philip Gibbs

source: Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

topic: Running, Years, Car, Motor Cars, Twenty Five

I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game.

- Harry Broadhurst

topic: Airplane, Mean, Games, Motor Cars

When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

- Tom Hodgkinson

source: "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2006.

topic: Space, Giving, Car, Motor Cars

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

- Lewis Mumford

source: "My Works and Days". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1979.

topic: Cities, Car, Lovers, Motor Cars, Lovers And Friends

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

- Helmut Newton

topic: White, Car, Doe, Motor Cars, Hotel Rooms

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

- George Bernard Shaw

source: The Apple Cart (1930) act 1

topic: Long, Giving, Car, Motor Cars

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Fanny's First Play”, p.7, 1st World Publishing

topic: Car, Telephones, Morality, Motor Cars

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

topic: New York, Past, Car, Slaughterhouse Five, Walt

and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Men, Car, Ribbons, Motor Cars

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Country, Sweat, Riding, Cycles, Biking

Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

- John B. S. Haldane

topic: Horse, Science, Men, Motor Cars

Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

topic: Moving, Airplane, Talking, Motor Cars

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

- Craig Johnston

topic: Flower, Sunshine, Car, Inquisitive Minds, Inquisitive

In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

topic: Eye, Men, June, Motor Cars, Jingles

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

- Arnold Bennett

source: Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd

topic: Book, Reading, Cutting, Motor Cars, Shire

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

- Henry Ford

source: "Soaring Above Traffic In A Flying Car Sooner Than You Think" by Chuck Squatriglia, www.wired.com. December 4, 2007.

topic: Motor Cars

there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable of 70 mph never trundle a smidgen over thirty. A world where alcohol never makes people drunk and is only ever consumed in moderation by responsible adults who appear to be at least 25 years old!

- Trevor Beattie

topic: Mph, Years, Drunk, Motor Cars

Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

- John Lennon

topic: Jesus, Car, Cinema, Motor Cars