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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. -- Neal Barnard
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. -- Mark Kennedy
I never rode in an automobile until I was 12. -- Loretta Lynn
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. -- B. C. Forbes
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. -- Erma Bombeck
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. -- Frederik Pohl
Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies... yet the auto has replaceable parts. -- B. J. Palmer
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. -- Rod Serling
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety. -- Eric Sevareid
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. -- Robert X. Cringely
I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. -- Jerry Seinfeld
It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject. -- Martin Winterkorn
The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it. -- Stephen Breyer
Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do. -- Jim Rohn
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. -- George Washington Carver
Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car. -- Neil LaBute
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. -- Raymond Chandler
All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it. -- Jacque Fresco
Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth. -- Jacky Ickx
Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America! -- Stephen Sondheim
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue. -- Hermann Hesse
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. -- Ron Paul
The electrification of the automobile is inevitable. -- Bob Lutz
The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete. -- Rudolf Diesel
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas. -- Ed Markey
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. -- Bill Bryson
Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else. -- Allan Sherman
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. -- Herbert Marcuse
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. -- Christy Mathewson
The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it -- Robert Coates Holliday
I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing -- Stephen Wright
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. -- Art Buchwald
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. -- Walter Chrysler
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not. -- John Irving
Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new. -- Nolan Bushnell
And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. -- Jan Brewer
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. -- Stewart Udall
The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance. -- Anthony Foxx
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. -- Milton Friedman
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami. -- Virginia Postrel
But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. -- Sigmar Gabriel
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. -- Bill Bryson
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff. -- Mary Barra
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. -- Leon Trotsky
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. -- Jonathan Kozol
Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing. -- Edward Herrmann
What I wanted to do was build an automobile. -- Carroll Shelby
Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels. -- Sara Evans
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. -- Woody Allen
Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government. -- John Nance Garner
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society. -- Raymond Loewy
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. -- Philip Johnson
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans. -- Hank Johnson
And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it. -- Barack Obama
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. -- Woodrow Wilson
I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business. -- Lee Iacocca
The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there. -- Martin Winterkorn
In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. -- Benjamin Spock
Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities. -- Jane Jacobs
She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was. -- Lisa Dierbeck
I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile. -- Nikki Cox
People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not. -- Akio Toyoda
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do. -- Ray Bradbury
Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustainable from energy and safety perspectives. -- Larry Burns
It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you. -- Doris Day
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is. -- Diane Johnson
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. -- Ray Bradbury
You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? -- Samuel Hoffenstein
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. -- Will Rogers
In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself. -- Ferdinand Porsche
DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor. -- Simon Schama
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon. -- Ronald Reagan
And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they? -- Don Panoz
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. -- Charles Bukowski
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. -- Kaye Gibbons
People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good. -- L. Ron Hubbard
An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air. -- Alan Mulally
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. -- Charles Mengel Allen
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. -- Bob Edwards
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people. -- Ralph Nader
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
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. -- Hermann Oberth
You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it. -- Vint Cerf
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion. -- Man Ray
You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism. -- John Raese
I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by. -- Preston Sturges
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. -- Richard Petty
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile. -- Paul Goldberger
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation ... -- Ann Landers
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market. -- Keith Ellison
The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile. -- Harley Earl
Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States. -- Thomas Sowell
The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer. -- Pat Buchanan
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. -- L. Frank Baum
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
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire. -- Louis Kronenberger
You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse. -- Charles Marion Russell
It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure. -- Carl Andre
Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, "I am for people, individuals "? exactly like automobile insurance "? individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance, -- Newt Gingrich
(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever. -- William Baldwin
And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years. -- Chris Anderson
Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web. -- Tim Berners-Lee
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.' -- Eugene Mirman
If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way. -- Brock Yates
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. -- John Leo
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. -- James Hansen
The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can't change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running. -- Raymond Sokolov
[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented. -- Jonathon Keats
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts. -- John Cheever
If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're fighting for your country. There's a double standard here. -- Joseph Stiglitz
The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on. -- Marsha Blackburn
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart. -- Dallas Willard

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