Automobiles Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White: "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." # Automobiles

J G Ballard: "The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society." # Automobiles # Freedom # Ideas

J G Ballard: "What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths." # Automobiles # Death and Dying # Elegance

Roland Barthes: "I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object." # Automobiles # Music # Arts and Artists

Jean Baudrillard: "Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated." # Automobiles

Daniel J Boorstin: "The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims." # Automobiles # Food and Eating # America

Jean Cocteau: "A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system." # Automobiles # Sympathy # Age and Aging

Kenneth Grahame: "Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!" # Automobiles # Travel and Tourism # Cities and City Life

Karl Lagerfeld: "The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire." # Automobiles # Dreams # America

Marshall Mcluhan: "The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete." # Automobiles # Love # Dress