“The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.” FirstsLittlesReasonJobsCarStupidFirst TimePerformancesMovedCaliforniaEnginesCobras Author:Carroll Shelby
“I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.” PeopleIfsYearsStillsPainFallClearCarStupidHundredMedicineMilesTherapyInjuryAmazedPillsGallonsScamsSales Pitch Author:Dean Edell
“You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.” FirstsBigsCarStupidFirst TimeThrillLimousines Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Everybody thinks that 2-D is Damon, but none of the characters are based on any of us. 2-D is the classic stupid pretty boy singer. He's the fall guy, the stooge. Everyone takes the piss out of him. He had a car accident where he went through the windscreen and ended up with two bumps on his head. It knocked some cool into him” ThinkingTwoCharacterGuyFallBoysCarStupidAccidentsSingersClassicBumpsCar AccidentDamonStoogesPretty Boy Author:Jamie Hewlett
“In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.” OrderWinningCarStupidCompetitionAggressive Author:Carroll Smith
“When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.” FeelingsTurnsCarStupidTypeEgoClothesEastIdiotObsessedGermanyNecksIndividualismConsumptionSolidaritySuperfluousStupid ThingsMerchandiseVery StupidEast Germany Author:Till Lindemann
“I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanDoeRealCountryWholeBodyBrainAttitudeCarStupidPeriodsActivityDearScaredDriversDear FriendPavementMany FriendsChange Your Attitude Author:Ray Bradbury
“It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.” WritingFilmGuyCertainNextSoundSidesRichCarStupidBuildingStrangePaperSittingTinyOpeningBoredReviewsThis GuyHammersSunnyDanishCannesSunny Side Author:Lars von Trier
“We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the point where this is no longer a part of our experience.” UseCarStupidFuelFossilsLiquidFossil Fuel Author:Christiana Figueres
“It was the same with Schumacher: the need for the adrenaline rush, to push himself to the limit was always there. So without a Formula One car to race with he went on to do motorcycle racing and other stupid things, and obviously that wasn't enough to keep him happy, so he had a problem to sort out and returning to racing was his answer to the problem.” NeedsEnoughProblemAnswersRaceCarStupidLimitsFormulasRacingMotorcycleAdrenalineStupid ThingsFormula OneAdrenaline RushSchumacher Author:Niki Lauda
“We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just about everything we do politically is in the service of WalMart and the systems tied to it. In transportation, we could, for instance, have compelled General Motors to produce railroad rolling stock as a condition of their bail-out, but we didn't do that. Instead, we're chasing the phantom of electric cars - and, believe me, we are going to be mortally disappointed how that works out.” BelieveStillsConditionsCarStupidProduceBehaviorProductionsWork OutInstanceDisappointedTiedElectricBelieve In MeCommerceRollingChasingCompelledPromotingMotorCropsTransportationPhantomsRailroadsBailGeneral MotorsWalmartElectric CarGenetically ModifiedEthanolAgribusiness Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Thanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hating—you know, where they’re in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. It’s just not as involved and laborious to be a hater as it used to be. There’s not as much face-to-face interaction. Facebook’s made ’em lazy.” PeopleThinkingHateCarStupidInternetWindowMovedThanksLazyAggressionHate You Author:Negin Farsad
“The world is super-stupid. You have by far the best designers in America! And you do the most stupid cars in the world! They put billions into their stupid designs for General Motors, Chrysler, Buick, or who knows what. The designers in America must be frustrated. I am not frustrated, because I am not a designer - I am a philosopher, and all philosophers have said for ages that the world around them is stupid.” WorldAgeCarStupidDesignPhilosopherDesignerFrustratedMotorGeneral Motors Author:Luigi Colani
“I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.” YearsJobsHouseFunDecisionCrazyCarStupidSeriousHaving FunSteadySpiritedStupid Things Author:Avril Lavigne
“I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!” PeopleWayWantPersonsCarStupidComfortableVery GoodGood PeopleMachinerySyndromesAspergersAsperger's Syndrome Author:Gary Numan
“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” IfsThinkingInspirationalTryingMotivationalCareFunnyInspiringMoneyAliveCarMissingStupidCoupleFinancialWittyDebtMaking MoneyHilariousPaymentSaving MoneyMissing YouFunny MoneyMoney ManagementSelf-importanceNobody CaresCreditorsChange Your AttitudeHave A LaughFunny One LinerHilarious ShortSmart MoneyMoney MotivationWitty One LinersCar Payments Author:Earl Wilson
“In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?” PeopleWayShouldLooksLightHappensCareWishFeltHappenedCarStupidFindingsLooking BackPullingTrafficTraffic Light Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity