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" The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed. "
Chris Bangle
Luxury
Car
Evolution
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" 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
Think
True
People
" Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake. "
Andrea Jung
World
Women
Mistake
" One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. "
Justin Cronin
Me
You
End
" In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. "
Lawrence Summers
Car
Ever
History
" I'm crazy about cars, about boats, about airplanes, about anything mechanical - I'm just a boy, really, and my clients are like boys, too. "
Richard Mille
Mechanical
Boy
Like
" First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit. "
Chris Hemsworth
Never
Car
Time
" After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me. "
George Clooney
Me
Cool
Attention
" Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration. "
Gregory Benford
Computers
Exploration
Car
" The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. "
Ben Sweetland
Car
Life
Opportunity
" Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. "
Bill Ayers
Parents
Revolution
Rich
" The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself. "
Bozoma Saint John
Walk
True
Shoes
" 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
World
Me
People
" It was somewhere in Ohio - Cedar Point or something like that - one of those thrill rides. A few cars up, someone's sunglasses had fallen off, and we were on one of those corkscrew parts, and I saw sunglasses and just instinctively grabbed them right out of the air. I was like, 'Oh, my reaction time is really good. This is going well.' "
Hilary Knight
Someone
Time
Sunglasses
" Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secular, and he had this huge hit, 'You Send Me.' Irma, my older sister, and I heard 'You Send Me' on the radio while we were driving through the South one night. We had to stop the car. We got out and danced around the car out on the highway. "
Aretha Franklin
Me
Car
Night
" One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade. "
Hugh Laurie
Car
Windows
Week
" Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. "
Muhammad Ali
People
Car
Yourself
" Lyft treats people better than competition. So whether that's drivers or passengers, that goes into the car experience. That's why more and more people are choosing Lyft. "
John Zimmer
Car
People
Competition
" Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that. "
Sebastian Vettel
Like
Rush
You
" You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. "
Matt Haig
Woman
Depression
Cancer
" You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas. "
Ed Markey
Wait
You
Months
" A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit! "
Taraji P. Henson
Care
Good
Man
" Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car. "
Cory Lidle
Yeah
Car
Driving
" My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old. "
Tom Brokaw
Father
Mother
Me
" Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting. "
Russell Smith
Content
Women
Gender
" I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family. "
Tony Stewart
Go
Car
Family
" I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. "
Carroll Shelby
Texas
Who
Just
" We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine in an E. M. Forster novel. "
Jeremy Clarkson
Drive
Good
Know
" I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive. "
Jeff Gordon
Race
Way
Big
" I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. "
Ludacris
Muscle
Love
Car
" People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy. "
Demetri Martin
Car
Driving
I Am