Quotes on driving
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.
Lujack, Larry
You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe.
Abbey, Edward
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Mumford, Lewis
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
McCleary, Mac
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.
Unknown, Author
Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
Salinger, J. D.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Altito, Noelie
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
McLuhan, Marshall
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Kelly, Mary Ellen
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Toynbee, Arnold
We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us.
Grayson, Cary T.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Vries, Peter De
I don't wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
Allen, Woody
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.
Unknown, Author
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
Unknown, Author
I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
Rogers, Will
Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.
Pew, Marlen E.
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.
Abbey, Edward
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.
Wright, Steven
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
Barry, Dave
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Allen, Charles M.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Love, Jason