Top 300 Automobile Quotes & Sayings

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs of the future ones.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is precisely because we have gone out to talk to the automobile companies to explain government policy with regard to that sector, to talk to them about the MIDP and things like that. And indeed, it has been a very important part of attracting those investors to put in money in the South African economy and build motorcars in South Africa.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

I know the automakers are important to the United States. We care about the automobile industry.

You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

Every automobile ad looks alike.

In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.

Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.

The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

The automobile is an American cultural symbol.

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.

I think I have automobile skills and musical background.

And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.

The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.

At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.

Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

The job of automobile manufacturers is to passionately build something that others love to own.