Famous Car Quotes

"The cars we drive say a lot about us"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners"

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"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, Comedian

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

Steven Wright, Comedian

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

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"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, Artist

"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, Actor

"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, Politician

"But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"I never rode in an automobile until I was 12"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

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

Dave Barry, Author

"So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars"

Jeff Gordon, Athlete

"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, Athlete

"I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles"

Brock Yates, Editor

"Fast cars are my only vice"

Michael Bay, Director

"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, Actor

"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other"

Andrew H. Malcolm

"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, Scientist

"A car for every purse and purpose"

Alfred P. Sloan, Businessman

"I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need"

Adam Osborne, Author

"The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns"

Brock Yates, Editor

"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, Scientist

"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, Musician

"Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars"

Tom Arnold, Actor

"But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles"

Paul Fussell, Historian

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

Doug Larson, Cartoonist