There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i. e. , almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty. '
If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier.
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation.
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.
I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.