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I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie. -- Bill Hader
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building. -- Jane Jacobs
I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge fan of all the Second City talent, and I think my Dad and Bill Murray are long lost twins. -- Ryan McPartlin
You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. -- Gordon Sinclair
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. -- Bill James
We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. -- Paul Samuelson
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world! -- Bikram Choudhury
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet. -- Dorothy E. Denning
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives. -- Raul Grijalva
We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test. -- Michael D. Barnes
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
People get really nuts around cars. They get angry at cars, they get angry at their car, they get angry at people driving in cars; there's something really comical about that, about automobiles. -- Matt Dillon
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
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable. -- Susan Orlean
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating? -- Henry Mintzberg
In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google. -- John Battelle
People can't stay out of their cars. I do think we have a real problem staying out of our automobiles. We have a real dependency on them, and it may be for more than just transportation. -- Steve Forbert
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. -- Wilson Greatbatch
I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. -- Anthony Bourdain
I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol. -- Susan George
In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles. -- Joni Mitchell
When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households. -- Tyler Cowen
I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well. -- Joel Edgerton
As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like automobiles, electronics and home appliances - that are ballasts of the American economy. When those purchases decline, large manufacturing firms, suddenly short on funds, could begin laying off employees. -- Charles Duhigg
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
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles? -- Jane Jacobs
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings. -- Albert Einstein
They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China. -- Lester R. Brown
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy. -- Henry Ford
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles. -- Don Van Vliet
Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection. -- Michael J. Gelb
Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it. -- Will Rogers
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time. -- Bertrand Delanoe
Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time. -- Neal Shusterman
Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses. -- Paul Engle
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. -- Jack Vance
The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence. -- Claude Debussy
If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities. -- Parris Glendening
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
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture. -- Albert Einstein
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... -- Spencer W. Kimball
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
The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles. -- C. Wright Mills
We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better. -- Chris Harrison
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity. -- Andrew Joseph Galambos
We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first. -- Nick Offerman
There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment. -- Patrick Bedard
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother -- Barbara Johnson
As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress. -- Sydney J. Harris
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet. -- Dorothy E. Denning
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime. -- Beatrix Campbell
Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. We've got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit. -- Michael Bloomberg
People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie. -- Wendell Berry
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us. -- John Brunner
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie. -- Stephen Hunter
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. -- Helen Keller
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization. -- Elon Musk
My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line. -- Joe Biden
Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to think it illogical to drive automobiles to gyms while doing their best to avoid walking -- Dave Wilson
If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake. -- Dennis Weaver

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