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"Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows." His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly. "Ducks!" he shouted. "What?" "That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath. "Just drive the car, please," he said wearily."
"The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do."
"The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car."
"Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else."
"A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels."
"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car."
"When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since."
"You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding."
"I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car."
"We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him."
"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."
"What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car"
"My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it."
"If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them."
"If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?"
"I had many of the trappings of success. I was a lawyer. I drove a nice car and I had nice things. But "things" don't make a rich life."
"I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass."
"It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid."
"I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie."
"Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues."
