Famous Quotes & Sayings

Preston Sturges

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

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

Raymond Loewy

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

P. J. O'Rourke

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

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.

Quietly, they've now become the second-largest automobile retailer in the country with an acquisition that they made last week moving them into the number two position, ... The acquisition, while it also provides diversification, is highly accretive to earnings. We were estimating (1999 earnings per share of) $1.50. We're now saying $1.75. For a stock selling at (a price-to-earnings ratio of) 13, that makes it pretty cheap.

This is an exciting number, but it was warmer in November than usual. The warm weather is the equivalent of zero-percent financing on automobile sales. You're going to see this work itself off in months to come.

It's a transformation from the horse and buggy to the automobile. We're not going to do away with the automobile but for flight, for trips over fifty miles it's just so convenient and so easy and so safe.

It was the main transportation system for years, but the automobile put it out of business. It was the way you traveled. You could travel from Sebastopol to Santa Rosa in far less time than it now takes.

Every single automobile on the road today is ethanol-capable. All vehicles can operate on a 10 percent blend of ethanol with gasoline, and Flexible Fuel Vehicles can use E85, an alternative fuel containing 85 percent ethanol.

Technology started to pass Ford by. Earlier, he knew what people would buy -- a cheap, reliable automobile that would handle the rough roads of the United States. But by the early 1920s, people wanted more than the Model T.

The steel industry has been very fragmented (in Europe)...and the automobile and packing industries have been exploiting that.

Back then, with the bikeways, it was thought that it would take part of the automobile traffic off the road.

Martin Winterkorn

India is and will remain an important strategic growth market for the Volkswagen Group. We are convinced that VW will take on a key role in the Indian automobile market in the long-term.

In all modern automobile factories in the world, there are breaks for assembly-line work. They are an indispensable component of an intelligent working organization and are no relic from the past.

Consumers are demanding better fuel efficiency in their vehicles and less dependence on foreign oil. And we believe the investment community has identified our technology as being poised to meet this demand, especially as the automobile industry struggles to increase the value of their products.

The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competition and its threat to the industrial foundation of America.

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

William Taylor

The automobile was not for the secretary-general's personal use and therefore the exemption was not justified.

The automobile today is nothing more than a rolling physics lab with a lot of computers in it. These kids are the computer generation. They grab the technology and go fast with it.

The automobile has probably got the worst environment for electronics. They're very dry, very dusty; or very hot and humid; or very cold and wet.

Rudolf Diesel

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Any time you can get in an automobile and drink and drive and take an innocent life, the laws need to be changed. The laws need to be changed.

It's not inconceivable to remove GM. But I'm not sure if there is another automobile company that better represents the industry and the auto industry is here to stay.

It's still very mixed, it's a very narrow market. It's like an automobile which has many cylinders. To really get our market in gear and running smoothly you need to have more cylinders hitting than fewer. We just had another cylinder kick in today with this spurt in gold.

It's significant to note that a 'bumper-to-bumper' automobile warranty doesn't include the bumpers

It was more geared to a fast-paced automobile society.

This is yet one more problem for the lake that stems from private automobile use in the basin.

Investment mania has been evident in the ferroalloy, coke, calcium carbide, automobile and copper smelting sectors.

In terms of stocks, GE is the biggest problem today, as is the American automobile sector, ... You've got Ford trading at $7 a share, that's practically bankruptcy level for a company that is not in danger of declaring bankruptcy. And when GE, one of the great, major companies of the world is down, it has a big impact on the psychology.

Raymond Loewy

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.

Eric Roberts

But I had a white cat named Mercedes, who lived to be 16, who I got on the way home from the hospital after my automobile accident.

Simon Schama

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.