683 private quotes tagged car

“I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.”— Alexandra Paul

“Fast cars are my only vice.”— Michael Bay

“Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.”— Paul D. Boyer

“I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.”— Rip Torn

“I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.”— Evel Knievel

“I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.”— Adam Osborne

“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

“We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.”— John Searle

“You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.”— Gordon Sinclair

“Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.”— Bud Abbott

“No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.”— Larry McMurtry

“Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.”— Ingvar Kamprad

“We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?”— Catherine Bell

“I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.”— Lara Flynn Boyle

“We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.”— Yuan T. Lee

“I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.”— Maurice Gibb

“When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.”— Ayrton Senna

“It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.”— Marlee Matlin

“The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.”— Rudolf Diesel

“There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.”— Mario Lopez

“I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.”— Matthew Barney

“But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.”— Picabo Street

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”— George Best

“I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.”— Jane Campion

“You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.”— Michael Fassbender