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Quotes About Transportation

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
~ Marya Mannes
The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.
~ Martin Winterkorn
We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".
~ Sacha Baron Cohen
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.
~ Juliana Hatfield
I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!
~ Richard Hammond
Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.
~ Matthew Fox
Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
My first car was a 1986 Toyota pickup.
~ Michael Steger
My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere.
~ Sophie Okonedo
Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?
~ Sara Gruen
What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car
~ Simone Elkeles
When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.
~ Robert James Thomson
Nick is driving us," Jamie informed him. "Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha!
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
When you're riding a bike you're more connected to the outdoors and to other people than you are when you are stuck in your car.
~ Shakti Gawain
About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
~ Sherwood Boehlert
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.
~ Steven Chu
Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.
~ Steven Curtis Chapman
One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet.
~ Dean Ornish
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
~ Eric Schmidt
It may be noted, in parenthesis, that in this period the coach was introduced to England
~ Peter Ackroyd
I once spent a night at a truck stop in Shandong Province, on the east coast, asking drivers about what they carried. Two men had a truck full of bamboo whisk brooms; they had just dropped off a shipment of non-ferrous metal... Others had gone from chemical materials to radiators, from tennis shoes to dynamos. They were the alchemists of the new economy, at the center of every mysterious exchange that occurs along the Chinese road system.
~ Peter Hessler
In the nineteenth century, maps often indicated watering holes for horses.
~ Peter Turchi
gyropters will arrive shortly after the zeppelins. In accordance with your orders, the Lady
~ Philip Pullman
it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck.
~ David Levithan