Top 88 Automobile Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Automobile Quotes from famous people such as Hermann Oberth, Mary Barra, Susan Orlean, Richard Linklater, Bill James, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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
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
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
I wrote a script – a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get money for that. I did a pilot about minimum wage workers for HBO that didn’t get picked up; they thought it was depressing, even though it was a comedy.
Richard Linklater
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
Bill James
You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.
Gordon Sinclair
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
Bikram Choudhury
I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.
Alan Mulally
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray Bradbury
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
The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard – driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.
Shervin Pishevar
I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
Preston Sturges
It’s my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it’s a good thing to be chairman.
John Elkann
Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Martin Winterkorn
I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
John Gregory Dunne
Fuel cells create a better automobile that’s 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustainable from energy and safety perspectives.
Larry Burns
My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a car anywhere, I get in and put the key in the ignition, shift out of park and drive. I don’t need an instruction manual.
Martin Cooper
There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.
John Gregory Dunne
Not only have individual politicians and celebrities personally condemned your automobiles for being too messy, noisy, and harmful to the common good, but they’ve tried to affect the natural market through taxes on larger vehicles along with incentives and quotas for ‘greener’ cars.
Steven Crowder
The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
Ed Markey
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
Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.
Paul Engle
Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
Joe Biden
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Charles Mengel Allen
I’ve had a lot of different companies. I’ve been in banking and automobiles and real estate and a lot of things.
Tom Benson
The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.
Thomas F. Wilson
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
America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.
Herbert Hoover
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
What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
Carroll Shelby
In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.
Raymond Loewy
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
Stewart Udall
The Church is not an automobile showroom – a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
The largest issue with search is that we learned about it when the web was young, when the universe was ‘complete’ – the entire web was searchable! Now our digital lives are utterly fractured – in apps, in walled gardens like Facebook, across clunky interfaces like those in automobiles or Comcast cable boxes.
John Battelle
Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.
Michael Gerber
If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and produce its own electricity, probably using a form of water as fuel. Even automobiles might be cold-fusion powered.
Charles Platt
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
As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world – and they’re coming – it’s better to – be inside the tent and figure out what they’re doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, ‘You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I’m going to stick to my horse and carriage,’ you know.
Leslie Moonves
America has always had an affinity for the automobile. It’s something everybody can understand. A bunch of cars competing, and the fastest guy wins.
Brian France
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.
Henry Petroski
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
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama’s leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil.
Robert Zubrin
As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
Jerry Della Femina
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
John Burroughs
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
The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.
Alan Mulally
The automobile crash was… devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about… It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.
James Rosenquist
My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.
Madam C. J. Walker
My first job at Gleason’s Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
Chuck Berry