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Quotes About Vehicles

Nadie se fija en nadie, Richard. Y nosotros parecemos una pareja madura de vacaciones. —¿En la nieve? ¿En dos vehículos? ¿Con una niña llorona y un perro vestido de Sherlock Holmes? Y tú con esos pelos colorinches. Por supuesto que llamamos la atención, mujer.
~ Isabel Allende
What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
~ Ratan Tata
It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.
~ Gregory Benford
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
~ Jim C. Walton
the car costs less than $20,000, take a cash-back offer. If it is more than $20,000, a zero-percent-financing deal is better.
~ Suze Orman
white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur
~ Neal Shusterman
They had grown violent, turning riotous. Venerated statues were being pulled down on the scythedom tower grounds, and scythe vehicles that had been foolishly parked on the street were set aflame.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm an automotive fan. I love motor sports, and I love to watch motor sports. I love it all.
~ William Fichtner
I respect motorcycles so much.
~ Michiel Huisman
I'm into cars and motorcycles, but I'm not crazy. I still have a couple motorcycles, but as you get older and you have kids, you develop a little bit of caution on the road.
~ Donal Logue
Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
~ Ed Markey
while AI is busy improving itself, robotics' industry spending is set to exceed $135 billion in 2019, nearly double its 2015 figure.[132] Not only will vehicles lose their drivers, the vehicles themselves are likely to be built by robots, especially since the automotive industry is the number one buyer of automated robots
~ Klaus Schwab
Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.
~ J.D. Robb
You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls." "I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground." Roarke sent her a quick smile. "And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years?" "Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet." "Good point. I'll do the flying." "Do that, ace.
~ J.D. Robb
I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.
~ Greg Fitzsimmons
You can always tell a police state, or a country at war, by how government vehicles move
~ Nelson DeMille
Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.
~ Gary Lineker
No matter where he went in the City, there was an odoriferous mix of food and vehicles, like the alchemic concoctions of some mad gourmet mechanic: Kung Pao Saab Turbo, Buick Skylark Carbonara, Sweet-and-Sour Metro Bus, Honda Bolognese with Burning Clutch Sauce.
~ Christopher Moore
electronics and software now represent up to 40% of the cost of premium vehicles:
~ Vaclav Smil
The Selfish Gene—he set off decades of debate by declaring: "We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
~ James Gleick
Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.
~ Rita Rudner
If you use your drafts as exploratory vehicles for that purpose, you condemn them to a major rewrite. Because every milestone requires a setup, and many require foreshadowing, neither of which is possible until you know where you're headed.
~ Larry Brooks
The autos alone remained to conquer space.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
All humans, indeed all animals, have the propensity to respond to events as if they were intentional and personal. For some analysts this is animism. It seems likely that all humans are tempted to personalize even the artefacts with which they live: if they do not ask "fetishes" to guide them or amulets to protect them, they are likely to name their vehicles or weapons (from spears to atomic bombs).
~ Graham Harvey