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Car Quotes


"Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience."


"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway."
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"Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead."


"I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar."


"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."


"You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car."
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"I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."


"I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car."


"As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York."


"A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me."


"I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems."


"Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident."


"I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy."


"You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance."


"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."


"People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy."


"I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car."


"I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in."


"I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears."


"The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes."


"So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills."


"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 was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car."


"We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car."


"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."
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"The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there."


"I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street."



"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."


"A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it."
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