automobile quotes

That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical naturehave been introduced.

-Anonymous
  Scientific  American, 2  Jan.

Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of Americanmanmorethantheautomobile, or seemsso important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.

-Barr, Alfred Hamilton,Jr
  In news summaries, 31 Dec. / 2

An artist who has travelled on a steam train, driven an automobile,or flowninanairplanedoesn'tfeelthesame way about form and space as one who has not.

-Davis, Stuart
  'Is There a Revolution in the  Arts?', in Bulletin of  America's Town Meeting of the Air, vol.5, no.19 (19 Feb).

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

-Gibbons, Kaye
  In the NewYork Times,7  Jan.

   The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Town and the  Automobile or the Pride of Elm Street', published in Writings (1979).

The United States is the only country ever to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

-Rogers,Will
c.1930  Attributed.

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