car quotes

Would you buy a used car from this man?

-Anonymous
  Democratic slogan to disparage Richard M Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign. Nixon had come across badly in television debates, in contrast to the charismatic  John F Kennedy.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors. The north is thinethere hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

-William Blake
  Poetical Sketches,'To Winter'.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

- Geoffrey Boycott
  Of the experience of facing fast bowlers. Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car.You would call that not a disease but an error of judgement.

- Philip K(indred) Dick
  A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

- Eleanor Farjeon
  Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.

-William Hague
  Of  John Prescott. In the House of Commons,17 Nov.

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance.Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter.

- Fran(ces Ann) Lebowitz
Social Studies,'Lesson One'.

The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.

- Fernand Le  ger
Quoted in D Cooper The Cubist Epoch (1970).

To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetryand tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.

- (Harry) Sinclair Lewis
  Babbitt, ch.3.

The car has becomeanarticle ofdresswithout whichwe feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

- (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
  Understanding Media, ch.22.

If you were poor fifty years ago, it meant you didn't have enoughto eat.If you're poornow, it meansyouonly have one car.

- Sir George Martin
  In Esquire,  Jan.

The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heav'n doth hold, And the gilded car of day, Hisglowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream.

-John Milton
  Comus,  A Mask, l.93^7.

   If Microsoft were a car it would have a large gas pedal and a small but workable brake. It would not have a rear- view mirror.

- Mike (Michael) Murray
  In Newsweek,11  Jul.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

- Kenneth Tynan
  In the NewYorkTimes Magazine, 9 Jan.

I had mixed feelingslike watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your car.

-Terry Venables
  Of Paul Gascoigne's move fromTottenham Hotspur to the Italian club Lazio. Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).