683 private quotes tagged car

“So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.” — Craig Johnston

0 favs

“So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.” — Craig Johnston

0 favs

“My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.” — Goran Ivanisevic

0 favs

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

0 favs

“I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'” — Caroll Shelby

0 favs

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

0 favs

“Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.” — Dave Lombardo

0 favs

“Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.” — Linwood Barclay

0 favs

“Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!” — Linwood Barclay

0 favs

“When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.” — Wilson Greatbatch

0 favs

“I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.” — Michael Schumacher

0 favs

“Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.” — Nigel Mansell

0 favs

“It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car they were being chased by cops they shot up a truck - and women loved it.” — Robin Quivers

0 favs

“The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.” — Ray Stannard Baker

0 favs

“I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.” — Casey Abrams

0 favs

“My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.” — John Searle

0 favs

“I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.” — John Searle

0 favs

“I talk to myself, especially in the car.” — Chris Pine

0 favs

“In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.” — J. Courtney Sullivan

0 favs

“I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.” — Ree Drummond

0 favs

“Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.” — Cory Lidle

0 favs

“A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?” — Charles Dance

0 favs

“Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.” — Elon Musk

0 favs

“I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.” — Richard Gough

0 favs

“There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?” — Timothy Griffin

0 favs