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“The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can’t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.”

Running Car Position Depends Owners Helpless Mechanic Tire Automobile Can't Change

Author:Raymond Sokolov

“California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.”

Way Wells Philosophy Character Film Tvs Huge Civilization Tradition Studios Posts California Factories Rooted Automobile Aircraft Charlatans Philosophy And Religion Cosmopolitanism

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.”

Happens Winning Crash Automobile Sweepstakes

Book:A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman

Source: A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman

“Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.”

Way Littles Problem Lost Fear Animal Poor Thousand Garden Treats Universal Blame Response Flight Intimacy Wheels Bees Insects Spiders Shrinks Automobile Wrecks Scapegoat Steering

Author:Dan Millman

“In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.”

Thinking Desire Television Civilization Activity Constant Automobile Time To Think

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“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.”

Ends States Use Would Be Space United Cities United States Land Limits News Population Being The Best Wiser Automobile Open Spaces Land Use

Author:Stewart Udall

“In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.”

People Men Trying Persons Courses Worry Stranger Noble Smoke Novelists Cigarette Automobile Great American Treacherous

Author:Daniel Handler

“Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.”

May Stills Work Path Grace Journey Car Civilization Capacity Humble Speed Wheels Airplane Initials Automobile Wheelbarrows

Book:An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons

Source: An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons

“Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.”

Men Children Beautiful Dies Mines Optimism Accounts Accidents Ships Founders Beautiful Women Automobile Cruise Lingering Submarines Cruise Ships

Book:The Jewels of the Cabots

Source: The Jewels of the Cabots

“So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.”

Want Persons Perfect Interesting Poet Versions Automobile Salesman Predicaments

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.”

Way Mass Productions Entertainment Distraction Automobile Mass Production American Way Of Life

Author:C. Wright Mills

“Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.”

Respect Shadow Areas Cash Arena Soap Automobile Prestige Money And Power

Book:The Power Elite

Source: The Power Elite

“Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.”

Government Politics President Vices Spares Tire Automobile Vice President

Author:John Nance Garner

“The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.”

Used Reading Literature Society Method Sells Obvious Significant Automobile Toothpaste

Book:The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959

Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959

“What you see is what you get.”

“Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.”

Source: An Essay on Liberation

“And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.”

Knows House Drug Accidents Terrorist Immigration Illegal Southern Automobile Spills Arizona Kidnapping Illegal Immigration Cartels Ranchers Drug Cartels Extortion

Author:Jan Brewer

“I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.”

Terrible Automobile Paranoia

Author:Nikki Cox

“Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.”

World Real Internet Terrorism Attractive Devices Automobile Cyber Appliances Virtual World

Author:Dorothy E. Denning

“A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.”

Order Results Business Driven Automobile

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.”

“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.”

Form Car New York Grew Shapes Grew Up Automobile

Author:Paul Goldberger

“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.”

People Ifs I Can Home Jobs Pay Environment Industry Cost Taxes Environmental Protection Ministers Germany Rising Automobile Because I Can Environmental Protection Automobile Industry

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.”

Use Source Train Plant Oil Nuclear Heat Gas Cycles Coal Truck Utility Automobile Oil And Gas Power Plants Generator Fission Nuclear Fission

Book:The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention

Source: The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention

“Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.”

People Computer Airplane Automobile

Author:Bill James

“Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.”

Ifs Two Happens Night Hours Sleep Broken Ten Train Eight Planes Automobile Broken Up

Author:Chantal Kreviazuk

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