#cars

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#adopted #ambitious #back #boost #cars

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#armored #bomb #cars #cockroaches #deeds

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. ↗

— Jay Kay

#british #british government #cars #collection #give

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#audience #career #doubt #films #get

Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal. ↗

— Tom Vanderbilt

#experience

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#least #love #mind #never #our

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #will-herondale #family

You are the sun and the moon to me. ↗

— Kathleen Duey

#sacred-scars #love

No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars... ↗

— Daniel Yanez

#healing-the-emotiinal-self #inspirational-attitude #scars #attitude

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#cars #get #i #kind #like