Back Seat Driving Quotes

#1. The back-seat driving of the less charitable emotions often makes me wonder that the brain does not desert the wheel entirely, in righteous exasperation. Not

Rex Stout

#2. I might regret my promises, but I keep them.

Seanan McGuire

#3. Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#4. This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Terry Pratchett

#5. If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

Russell Brand

#6. Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.

Barbara Holland

#7. Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

Amy Carmichael

#8. Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.

Jen Pollock Michel

#9. The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

Nicola Sturgeon

#10. As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

Wanda Sykes

#11. Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.

Douglas Adams

#12. It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

Paul Theroux

#13. No, I want big ol' titties in my face!

Chris Rock

#14. A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

Michael Johnson

#15. Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

John Larroquette

#16. My mother, she passed away when I was 28 years old. She fought cancer for more than 10 years. She had breast cancer, and I miss her.

Jason Chaffetz

#17. The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.

Margo Jefferson

#18. There should be a law passed to keep people like me from being alone with their thoughts for too long."

'Mona Rogers in Person

Philip-Dimitri Galas

#19. It isn't right. It isn't even wrong.

Wolfgang Pauli

#20. Holy Hottie-McHotters!

Jennifer L. Armentrout