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“Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!”

“Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick”

“I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.”

Thinking Stills Modern Car Built Horse Originals Abandoned Engineering Framework Carts Carriages Mules Modern Marriage

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real Man finds the notion of a $17,000 plastic car with no trunk somewhat absurd.”

Men Real Today Able Modern Car Notion Absurd Despite Gas Enlightened Plastic Modern Life Real Men Trunks

Book:Real Men Don't Eat Quiche

Source: Real Men Don't Eat Quiche

“As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.”

Known Progress Modern Car Average Speed Traffic Modern Life Automobile Congestion Horsepower

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.”

Way Problem Streets Modern Car Paid Solve One Way Traffic Modern Life

Book:The Will Rogers book

Source: The Will Rogers book

“Be young. Keep yourself young by having a good, sporty car like a Corvette. It keeps you on your toes. It keeps you young. It keeps you thinking young. It keeps you thinking modern and good things. Corvette is a modern, modern automobile.”

Thinking Young Modern Car Good Things Toes Automobile Be Young

Author:Jack LaLanne

“Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.”

Men Modern Car Credit Cards Gas Highways Credit Card Modern Man Credit Card Debt

Author:Earl Wilson

“Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.”

Men Feet Modern Car Losing Fancy Lungs Modern Man Sacredness Fancy Cars

Author:Steve Ilg

“The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.”

Modern Car Cost Exceed Electronics

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that.”

People Thinking Pay Modern Car Grew Clothes Grew Up Valentine Tribute Modern Day

Author:Todd Farmer

“It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.”

Needs Has Beens Hard Three Focus Impossible Feet Modern Car Cameras Lenses Non Stop

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.”

Stuff Fans Modern Century Car Design Huge Easier Clothes Phones Decades Cells Muscles Aesthetic Laziness Furniture Cell Phone Cherries Phone Booth Muscle Car

Author:Adam Reed