683 private quotes tagged car

“I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.”— Cory Monteith

“What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.”— Alan Jackson

“I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.”— Carrie Brownstein

“In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.”— Manfred von Richthofen

“When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.”— Merle Haggard

“It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.”— Merle Haggard

“There were times when I thought I would never own a car.”— Victor Cruz

“The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.”— Elle Macpherson

“I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.”— Richard M. Daley

“I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.”— Hakeem Olajuwon

“In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.”— Willie Mays

“Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.”— Lauren Graham

“All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!”— Jay Kay

“It's not a case of 'look at me in my car' it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.”— Jay Kay

“I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.”— Jay Kay

“All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'”— Rosario Dawson

“The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.”— Maggie Q

“You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.”— John Mellencamp

“The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.”— Steve Case

“I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.”— Alain Prost

“One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.”— Alain Prost

“I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.”— Alain Prost

“You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.”— Alain Prost

“We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.”— Joel Coen

“I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.”— Lucy Hale