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We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. -- Jello Biafra
If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government. -- Arthur Laffer
The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? Which freaked me out because I was on my way to the Department of Motor Vehicles. -- Arj Barker
I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake. -- Greg Behrendt
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. -- Peter Zumthor
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. -- Ralph Peters
I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. -- Ludacris
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. -- Stephen Ambrose
I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs. -- Gordon Cooper
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority. -- Andy Grove
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour. -- Gary Oldman
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. -- Spiro T. Agnew
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. -- Wislawa Szymborska
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. -- David Attenborough
I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles. -- Hillary Clinton
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It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States. -- Brad Sherman
As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America. -- Debbie Stabenow
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 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
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids. -- Takeshi Uchiyamada
You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles. -- Buzz Aldrin
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. -- Hu Shih
When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river. -- Eckhart Tolle
We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: wheelchairs, crutches, grabber sticks, hearing aids, canes, guide dogs, modified vehicles, ramps, as well as other kinds of services and supports. Disability does not necessarily mean dependence on other people. -- Stella Young
Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. -- Tom Chatfield
It's hard to find vehicles for your music. -- Nikki Sixx
Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society? -- Dennis Prager
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. -- Marquis de Sade
I've always loved fast vehicles and looking at interesting cars. -- Ndamukong Suh
And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. -- Tim Holden
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves. -- Jane Jacobs
All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence. -- Bayazid Bastami
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. -- Peter McWilliams
Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope. -- George Will
I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking. -- Joe Arpaio
Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that. -- Steve Gleason
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. -- J. K. Rowling
We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. -- Paul Watson
Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver. -- Robert James Thomson
We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way. -- Freeman Thomas
Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are. -- Vikrmn
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. -- Idries Shah
Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self. -- Kenny Werner
In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody, -- Bob Lutz
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for. -- Richard Paul Evans
They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted. -- Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson? -- Rand Paul
Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine. -- Albert Wynn
The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth. -- Stanton T. Friedman
What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth. -- Brad Sherman
There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today. -- Bob Lutz
I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles. -- Bernie Sanders
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. -- Tryon Edwards
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument -- Tryon Edwards
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them. -- Manuel Puig
America's all about freedom of choice, and I really hope that in the future we still have a great choice of vehicles. -- Henrik Fisker
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. -- Martha Beck
Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated. -- Jimmie Johnson
There is always laughter out of the speeding vehicles for the man who is still, half-way though he be in a better direction. -- R. S. Thomas
Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. -- David Nicholls
Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products. -- David Talbot
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). -- Daniel Dennett
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first. -- Chris Hadfield
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. -- Anne Rice
Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth. -- Rose Macaulay
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for. -- Frances Trollope
Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations. -- Jim DeMint
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly. -- Elihu Burritt
We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid. -- Georgy Zhukov
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. -- Henry Rollins
We will continue to offer the most dynamic vehicles in the future. However, we have also made it our mission to be sustainable as a company. -- Norbert Reithofer
.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here. -- Jennifer Granholm
Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station. -- Wayne Hale
For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications. -- Alvaro Uribe
Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car. -- Jeff Foxworthy
There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change. -- Jennifer Granholm
I want to go on TV to perform. I'm not conceited, but I am good at what I do. It's just the vehicles are not there anymore. -- Bobby Davro
One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice. -- Scott Harshbarger
We are survival machines "? robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. -- Richard Dawkins
To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job. -- Ann Coulter
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth. -- Marina Warner
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. -- Camille Paglia
At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds. -- Don Berliner
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer. -- Jim Walton
Whenever I've messed around with radio-controlled things, there's always been a part of me that's thought, I wonder if there might actually be a little guy piloting these vehicles. -- Ed Helms
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer. -- Jim Walton
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry. -- Charlie Dent
Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology -- Rosa DeLauro
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure. -- Timothy Murphy
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
I'm a positive person. I just want to chill, have fun and be productive. And just hope that through Hip-Hop and different vessels and vehicles we can change people's attitudes. -- Asher Roth
Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group. -- Norbert Reithofer
I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth. -- Gordon Cooper
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others. -- Frederick Lenz
We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. -- George W. Bush
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz. -- Gary Wolf
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others. -- Frederick Lenz
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up. -- Alexandra Paul
I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising. -- Barbara Kruger
If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. -- Antony Beevor
I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it's rather difficult to say which car or what car I ride. I love cars. -- Akio Toyoda
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else. -- Burt Rutan
I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages. -- Kendrick Meek
Americans are driving more in less-efficient vehicles. Sales of sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks have been amazingly strong considering the recession, and low pump prices are keeping people on the roads -- Mike Lucky
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. -- Richard A. Clarke
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles. -- Mac Thornberry
At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message. -- Eric Holder

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