“Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.” RunningOur LivesCarUp And DownGeorgiaLarksBandits Author:Jerry Reed
“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.” WorldFirstsMayArtEarthTurnsEasyHalfSupportTakenOur LivesSadnessCenturyCarMadResponseProsperityIntuitionEaseAppropriateWorks Of ArtAestheticConsumerismUnbelievableSculptureHammersOverconsumptionEasy ThingsBingeBiodegradable Author:Bill McKibben
“I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.” ChildrenPersonsKidsWantedSchoolThreeViewsLaughingOur LivesHappenedCarMetsYesterdayGreat TimesBradAmazing Person Author:Angelina Jolie
“The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.” IfsMadeDifficultOur LivesCarNeededWalkingDistance Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.” MenTryingBodyAgeFatherOur LivesAliveCarCitizensMoonHusbandTwentiesCaringShootingCrashAdolescenceBreezeBasketsCruiseGood CitizenGreat FatherGood HusbandCar CrashDashingWinsome Author:Garrison Keillor
“The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes.” IfsMenHumansMeanMadeRealityNaturalTechnologyOur LivesProgressCarTvsLosingIllusionResourcesSakeProductionsConvincedImprovementFallenEtcConsumptionConsumerismIdolatryNatural ResourcesOverconsumptionToothpaste Book:Seeds Source: Seeds
“The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.” WayFeelsLooksLife IsSecretRaceCreativeOur LivesRiskCarEmotionalPaidSillyDirtyEaseDriversConcreteEmbarrassmentLaundryRace CarCreative LifeRace Car DriverDirty Laundry Author:Paul Schrader
“You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.” PeopleWayHumansMayFeelingsCertainEnvironmentOur LivesCarElementsMachinesHorseNeglect Author:Albert Einstein
“Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different.... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay."” IfsDifferentWould BeOur LivesWifeCarMissingOkayBiggerConvincedMore MoneyBarbecue Author:Arjuna Ardagh
“Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.” PeopleTryingYearsLooksTodayAbleTechnologyOur LivesCarTenYears AgoCrashImprovingTelephonesSteersCar CrashCellularConstantly Improving Book:Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides Source: Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides
“When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers.” EndsMatterAsksAnswersOur LivesCarTaughtAccidentsUnhappyLiving My LifeHorrificCar Accident Author:Brendon Burchard