Car Quotes

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best

The cars we drive say a lot about us.
Alexandra Paul

It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Dale Earnhardt

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. White

It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow

We aren’t addicted to oil, but our cars are.
James Woolsey

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car’s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming.
Mitch Hedberg

A car for every purse and purpose.
Alfred P. Sloan

Fast cars are my only vice.
Michael Bay

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don’t care about other stuff.
Louis C. K.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Elon Musk

Germans make nice cars.
Jason Behr

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy

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

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
Dudley Moore

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.
Lawrence Summers

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean ’em inside and outside. I’m very touchy about cars. I don’t want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?
Scott Baio

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
T-Pain

There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.
Mario Lopez

People spend so much time in their cars, and it’s a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.
Jordana Brewster

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
Elon Musk

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan

I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
David Attenborough

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
Bill Gates

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.
Ludacris

I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food – it changes everyday.
Casey James

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.’
Rita Rudner

I don’t buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.
Peta Wilson

Electric cars aren’t pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
Alexandra Paul

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What’s wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
James Hillman

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
Brock Yates

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
Elon Musk

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
Carroll Shelby

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn’t hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman

I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Valentino Rossi

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn’t really about loving cars. It’s sort of about needing them.
Matthew Barney

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
Al Gore

But my passion is racing cars. It’s what I like to do in my off time.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.
Robert Herjavec

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.
Ryan Tedder

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. Joseph Cossman

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.
Jeff Gordon

I love fast cars… and to go too fast in them.
Lara Flynn Boyle

Tesla is becoming a real car company.
Elon Musk

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.
Steven Wright

I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.
Dax Shepard

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Dave Barry

You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
Mario Andretti

I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
Elon Musk

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
Paul D. Boyer

My boyfriend keeps telling me I’ve got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. ‘Why a house?’ ‘Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.’
Julia Roberts

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.
Larry McMurtry

Chrysler builds great cars.
Lee Iacocca

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
Evel Knievel

See, what you’re meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren’t you? Well, I’ve always had fast cars. It’s not that. It’s the fear that you’re past your best. It’s the fear that the stuff you’ve done in the past is your best work.
Robbie Coltrane

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna

I don’t like new cars; I’m into vintage cars – there’s a Jaguar E-Type in the ‘Goldie’ video.
ASAP Rocky

Your car should drive itself. It’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Eric Schmidt

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, ‘Oh, liked it because of this.’ Maybe it’s just the wheel.
Michael Fassbender

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving.
Steven Wright

We’re just into toys, whether it’s motorcycles or race cars or computers. I’ve got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I’ve got the world’s smallest phone. Maybe it’s just because I’m still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?
Catherine Bell

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It’s one of the things that makes me happy.
Ariel Gore

We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
John Searle

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Marvin Minsky

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
Lady Gaga

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.
Tom Arnold

It’s not just the kid who’s spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it’s also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it’s more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
Richard Hammond

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I’ve been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.
Picabo Street

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.
Elon Musk

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
Ingvar Kamprad

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal

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

I’ve always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you’re the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you’re the fastest. So no one can say you’re slow if you’re fast and no one can say you’re fast if you’re slow.
Eric Bana

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
James Norman Hall

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Doug Larson

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
Richard Hammond

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you’re like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
Marc Andreessen

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools.
Russell Baker

I drive Fords, and I’ve driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
Jim DeMint

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging – not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.
Michael Andretti

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Maurice Gibb

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.
Dale Earnhardt

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
A. J. Foyt

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
Jackie Stewart

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
Buddy Guy

In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it’s gonna be so crazy!
Glenn Danzig

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
Nick Mason

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.
Nick Mason

I’ve always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart – couldn’t put ’em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
Craig Johnston

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can’t drive.
Bud Abbott

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it’s not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
Serge Schmemann

Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
Serge Schmemann

In the last three years of racing I’ve met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it’s the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn’t have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
Tim Allen

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
Jay Inslee

I’ve got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you’ve got an old car, you’ve gotta have at least several old cars, ’cause one’s always gonna be in the garage.
Rip Torn

I’m an anorak. I’ve always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.
Michael Gambon

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better.
Marc Andreessen

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
James Cagney

I’m starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I’ve driven a lot of cars – sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there’s nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.
Kevin O’Leary

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.
Geoff Hoon

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.
Nigel Mansell

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.
Elon Musk

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
Joel Osteen

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic

The time is right for electric cars – in fact the time is critical.
Carlos Ghosn

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Elie Wiesel

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
Rodney Dangerfield

I know I’m not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.
Joe Biden

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
Bill Watterson

I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it’s scary, and it’s going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
J-Hope

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas… you’re not going anywhere.
Sean Hampton

The red car, even before I knew it was called Ferrari, was my obsession.
Charles Leclerc

The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings.
Lewis Hamilton

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.
Christophe de Margerie