"In a sense the car has become a……" — Rebecca Solnit
"In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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More Auto Quotes
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one of 163 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
— Dave Barry
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade…
— Ben Affleck
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
— Nolan Bushnell
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto…
— Michael Pollan
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But…
— Richard J. Foster
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You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether…
— Ted Danson
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
— James Surowiecki
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It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume,…
— Jose Mujica
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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.
— Henry Ford
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