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Quotes About Driving

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.
~ Jack Nicklaus
The last time I drank, I drove into a ditch, which doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but I stopped at the ditch, looked left and right, then drove into the ditch.
~ Jimmy Pardo
I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV. Really, I just drove my car right into the guardrail, figured I'd save him some time.
~ Alonzo Bodden
I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.
~ Dave Barry
Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.
~ Simi Linton
mind. He was driving
~ Marian Keyes
Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives. Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
if my dad put half the energy he did into cutting corners into just driving around the corner, he'd be a billionaire.
~ Marisha Pessl
It was fun. Sort of. The reason it was only sort of fun was that my life had collapsed. Unlike the people at the party, with their homes full of spouses and children, I was as alone and unmoored as I'd been twenty years ago, in these same suburbs, hanging out with the same boys. In the intervening decades, I'd thought I was going somewhere. But I had just been driving around.
~ Ariel Levy
I remember driving back from Portsmouth so tired that a voice in my head said I'll just close my eyes until I get to the bridge ahead. The next thing I knew was the wheels rumbling over the cat's eyes. I had tried to take a nap while driving. I'm not sure what Darwin would make of that.
~ Simon Reeve
Because we don't fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and drive at the same time, even though it is literally impossible for our brains to multitask when it comes to paying attention.
~ John Medina
Sometimes a steering wheel is better than a guitar
~ John Prine
And then I started driving to the beaches, I guess to make sure there was a whole world ready to welcome me when I finally decided to join it—if I ever decided to. I always came there with the intention of meeting someone. But then I would see a screaming fairy—and suddenly I'd be ashamed. It's very strange—but I couldnt bear to look into his eyes, afraid, I guess, that he'd look back at me with recognition.
~ John Rechy
Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.
~ John Selwyn Gummer
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
~ John Updike
The triffids weren't slow to be interested. That uncanny sensitiveness to sounds told them something was happening. As we drove out, a couple of them were already lurching towards the entrance.
~ John Wyndham
Sometimes driving is like this, a kind of consolation that's taken your measure and suits you exquisitely.
~ Elizabeth Tallent
Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
~ Elizabeth Wein
singing to the radio when you drive
~ Barbara Ann Kipfer
These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
~ Barry Lyga
I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage.
~ Todd Barry
I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.
~ Zak Bagans
I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
~ Jane Smiley