Quotes About Cars

You know why we'll never give up cars—because riding in cars at night is so beautiful, it's telling stories in a cave with the darkness kept out, the dash lights for the embers of the fire.

Most cars drove through there because the drivers is either from The Bottom and wanna get home - or they ain't from The Bottom and wanna get home in one piece.

In movies, people always "borrow" cars by yanking some wires out from under the dash and connecting them. But the real way it works involves a screwdriver and the starter thingy, under the hood. My personal ethics prevent me from giving you more information. That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

Cops are everywhere in New York City. Cars drive by every few minutes. Uniforms stand nonchalantly at street corners.

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.

I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.

My stepfather was mean to me and caused many an argument between my mother and myself. Once he even bawled me out for using one of my cars.

A Big Three auto executive in the 1930s once lamented, "It's not that we build such bad cars; it's that they are such lousy customers.

I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.

L.A.'s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.

I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.

I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.

I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.

Pac never had a license. He would mysteriously pop up with all these cars like, 'Get in. We're goin' to jail!' I ain't going nowhere with you.

Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.