“I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.”
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“Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.”
“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.”
“The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.”
“Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.”
“I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.”
“And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.”
“I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.”
“The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.”
“I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.”
“The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.”
“My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!”
“Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.”
“Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.”
“There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.”
“Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.”
“Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.”
“Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.”
“I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.”
“I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.”
“My first car was a motorcycle.”
“Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.”
“You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.”
“I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.”