When Were Cars Invented Quotes & Sayings

The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail to notice the sparkle of the place, a scale and a kind of wonder that puts all human endeavors in their proper place. — David Carr

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars. — James Gleick

if the teenage kids want to carouse, that's where they do it. They make bonfires, and drink too much and smoke dope, and grope around in one another's clothing as if they've just invented it, and smash their parents cars up on the way back to town. — Margaret Atwood

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. — Theodore Sturgeon

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry? — Arthur Golden

Inspiration.
five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus;
the world passing by.
a gateway to freedom.
the american dream.
from the american dream — K.R. Albers

No one ever knew they were old-fashioned; everyone always thought they were up-to-the-minute: Rickety Model T cars weren't rickety when they were invented, scratchy radio wasn't scratchy until television, and silent movies weren't a feeble precursor of talkies until there were talkies. Your two-piece telephone that demanded that you hold a cylinder to your ear while you screeched into the wall demanding a particular exchange of a harried, plug-juggling operator was the highest of high-tech. To know it was anything less would have been like acknowledging you were going to die and life was transient and you were already halfway to being a memory or worse. The real and worst tragedy of twentieth-century East Europeans: They had known they were old-fashioned before they could do anything about it. — Arthur Phillips

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. — William James

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help. — Mario Balotelli

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno. — Joe Budden

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars ... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. — Eric Schmidt

That is an excellent question, Agatha. It's like this. During the ancient times, most people carried swords when they traveled. They expected an attack from the right as most of the world is right-handed. So people walked or rode on the left to prepare for this. When cars were invented, they continued to use the left side." Agatha — T S Paul

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. — Craig Venter

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred. — Nicole Ari Parker

Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!" — Laurie Anderson

he was saying was — Diana Gabaldon

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy. — Don Henley

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show. — John Polkinghorne

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. — Henry Ford

Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint. — Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow. — A. J. Jacobs