41 quotes found
“Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”
“There were some low moments out there on the road tonightabandonment and whats the point?but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurt...”
“The people of God are the driving force of every nation”
“God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window,more human than kerosene,more unctuous, more manly.”
“Staying relaxed was helping him cope with the drug induced juddering vision that could be best described as being like a Hitchcockian visual effect operated by a hyperactive squirrel that shook the...”
“There's something infinitely fascinating or fatal about a woman behind the wheel.”
“Living is like driving," my grandmother used to say. "You have to pick a lane." Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and...”
“Life is only a fast lane if you get into a lane and drive fast.”
“No really. If you only have seven years left, that means the Reaper will be dropping round for tea and buns in about 61,000 hours from now. You therefore shouldnt be wasting time by pootling to the...”
“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.”
“The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.”
“I can only drive slowly.""That's all right.""And I can only do left turns."Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!”
“I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they seem to be much more pragmatic about the whole thing than we are. For most males, driving is an ex...”
“Make sure you control the radio on a long road trip. You don't want to listen to some old-fashioned music the whole time.”
“When you're driving, you don't focus on everything at once, but you have peripheral awareness of it, right? You focus on what you need to at any given moment, whether it's the car in front of you, ...”
“Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.”
“That's how life works. You know it when you know it.They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.They're on a six...”
“A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the speedometer begins to lose ground. The man glances in his mirror at t...”
“People who could easily be mistaken as preteens just shouldnt even try to pull off the look-at-me-Im-so-serious-and-mysterious-and-sexy look. Especially while driving because, please, you look like...”
“The best way I can think to describe it, she said, ' is the way, when you're driving on the freeway at night how everyone can see the moon in their window. Every car on the road. Every car feels th...”