Car Quotes
“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
“Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.”
-- Danica Patrick
“They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.”
-- David R. Ellis
“I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.”
-- Connie Chung
“I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.”
-- Lewis Hamilton
“You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.”
-- Gary Cole
“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.”
-- Andrew Gross
“I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.”
-- Christine O'Donnell
“I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car, and then haggling for the price. I wish I could just snap my fingers and my car is there.”
-- Kiran Ahluwalia
“I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.”
-- Paul McDonald
“When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.”
-- Burton Cummings
“I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.”
-- Lou Thesz
“When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.”
-- Buck Baker
“We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.”
-- John Surtees
“I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.”
-- Jenson Button
“Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.”
-- Renny Harlin
“On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.”
-- Michael Tolkin