Backseat Quotes

#1. My grandma leaned out the backseat window, pointing at the cops. "Just so you know, I had no part in this! Ask anyone. They'll all tell you: I hate crime."
"Well, we won't mention to them how you 'forgot' to pay for those slippers at Wal-Mart, now, will we?" my mom hissed.

Emily Cassel

#2. On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.

Jim Rash

#3. Are we talking about Tyler?" Julian asked, leaning forward to put his face between the two of them from the backseat. "Please do call him, I have missed being handcuffed to every possible surface whenever I speak.

Abigail Roux

#4. There were some very good books in the backseat of the little Volkswagen; good books were the best protection from evil that Pepe had actually held in his hands - you could not hold faith in Jesus in your hands, not in quite the same way you could hold good books.

John Irving

#5. Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

Suze Orman

#6. It may not have occurred to you kids that sex is more than a fifteen-minute trip to the backseat of a car. It's science. And what is science?"
"Boring.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#7. In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

Neal Shusterman

#8. Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

Mark Wahlberg

#9. Seth let out a heavy sigh and ran his fingers through his hair. She had a point. Constant stops would put them at greater risk, especially when it came to Natti being seen. And obviously, it wasn't likely she'd stay in the car, even if he did ask. Maybe if he tied her up in the backseat?

Kelsey Ketch

#10. As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I've been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.

Genelia D'Souza

#11. There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

Richard Siken

#12. An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger

Richard Louv

#13. It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

Rick McCallum

#14. Chapin was secured in the backseat - the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason - and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.

Arundhati Roy

#16. You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

Eva Mendes

#17. Not a mark on it. (Joe)
Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I'll bet there's a big stain there. (Tee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

Khaled Hosseini

#19. Life can be driven by two things - fear or passion. When we are driven by passion, our fear takes the backseat and enjoys the ride. When we are driven by fear, there is no ride.

Talia

#20. While shooting Ten I was sitting in the backseat, but I didn't interfere. Sometimes, I was following in another car, so I was not even present on the "set", because I thought they would work better in my absence.

Abbas Kiarostami

#21. Zulu, we do this quick and easy," Ray said. "No ripping his chest apart, taking out his heart, and painting his blood across the pavement."
"Come on. I did that once, and you still won't leave it alone." I shrugged my shoulders and leaned back in the van's backseat.

Kenya Wright

#22. You always thought you knew where you were headed. But now your life's been interrupted, and these personal goals, hopes, and trajectories are being asked to take a backseat to what God uniquely has in mind for you.

Priscilla Shirer

#23. Finding practical answers to tough problems seems to take a backseat to ideology.

Christopher R. Hill

#24. She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.

J.A. Redmerski

#25. Yes, some mistakes leave their mark, like the infidelity stains in the backseat. But in time they do fade.

Crystal Woods

#26. Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?

Doug Benson

#27. I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church into the backseat of a car.

Cassandra Clare

#28. It was what she'd been doing in every aspect of her life lately, wanting to hole up in the backseat and not be asked to drive. Just hand over the keys to someone else.

Cara McKenna

#29. Years of backseat drives full of noise and sounds that seem random until you're alone in your room with headphones on; so you can truly get the whole picture.

Waldo Austin

#30. Uh-huh. Now Ali was beginning to get the picture. Riding backseat on a bike like Phantom was better than Mr. Blue any day. Not to mention the highly erotic act of wrapping one's legs around the man you loved.

Julie Ann Walker

#31. Why aren't we moving?" Tucker swings his bloodshot eyes toward the backseat. "We have a baby in this truck, Sabrina." "I know." He swallows hard. "This is fucked up. We shouldn't be allowed to leave the hospital with a kid. I've never even had a pet before.

Elle Kennedy

#32. 1) sharing a bed isn't nearly as intimate as making out in a too-small backseat, 2) inexplicably, some bras unhook in the front, and 3) Cassidy hadn't known I was Jewish.

Robyn Schneider

#33. from the backseat. "Ready to go?

Maggie Stiefvater

#34. I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

Nina Blackwood

#35. On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Lee Smolin

#36. I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

John McCain

#37. Maddy: "Um ... William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

Janet Chapman

#38. Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.

Amber Tamblyn

#39. I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

Stephen King

#40. The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

#41. I wanted to scream, "Just tell us already!" But of course I didn't. I remained still in the backseat, barely breathing.

Rebecca Donovan

#42. Losing it in the backseat with a can of beer and a blunt, virginity is of no value. I never celebrated my time before chocolate either.

Komrade Komura

#43. she thumped that Bible harder than a hooker getting paid twenty bucks for a quick fuck in the backseat. Her knowledge of the book was impeccable and irritating at the same time.

Yolanda Olson

#44. Just because I'm a queer doesn't mean I'm a pussy. They didn't ask, I didn't tell. Semper Fi," DeShaun said bailing into the backseat with the handgun cocked and loaded.

Stephen Woodfin

#45. You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

Akio Morita

#46. Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.

Shahrukh Khan

#47. backseat of Kip's car after this one time he sat in something he'd rather not admit to. It

G.L. Tomas

#48. Everyone's mind has sort of a slum division - a flirtatious spot that doesn't give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver.

Pawan Mishra

#49. Since I'm a man of my word, I don't show up at her door. I do end up driving over to the trailer park with my SUV. Parking, I crawl into the backseat, play tunes on my phone, and doze as close to my woman as I can manage without breaking my promise.

Bijou Hunter

#50. My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.

Christian Camargo

#51. The creature - " A low growl rumbled from the backseat. "Peaches," I said. "I don't think he likes to be called 'the creature.'" "Fine,

Orlando Sanchez

#52. Jason sang merrily in the backseat. "Jay! Quiet!" I barked. "Daddy is trying to drive.

K.W. Callahan

#53. This is so my favorite time of day to make house calls," Mendoza announced from the backseat of Wyatt's SUV as they cruised the Soyopango gangland territory. "Nothing says sneak attack like waltzing in under the cover of the noon-fucking-sun.

Cindy Gerard

#54. Check if anyone's following us," HAL said from the backseat. "How do I know that?" "Uh ... look in the rearview mirror.

Jane Seville

#55. The interior would have resembled the backseat of a really big car if the seat belts hadn't had five-point fasteners that looked like they belonged in an X-wing fighter.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher
than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

P. J. O'Rourke

#57. We're seriously going to drive to Jersey with a bird wearing a bra in the backseat?

H.M. Ward

#58. For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

Ariel Pink

#59. We need to run from here."
Everyone in the backseat started taking off their clothes.
"What the fuck are you doing! This isn't orgy time. It's fucking kick ass time."
"We're going to shift, you idjit," Shannon said.
Harsh but she was right. I was being dense.

Aileen Erin

#60. Maybe in death you'll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.

Charles Lee

#61. From the backseat of the pick-up stepped Dr. Marconi. I tried to imagine the conversation the three of them had on the way over, and my brain just spat out error messages.

David Wong

#62. Come on, Cabel," Carrie says. "Let me give you a ride, at least. Unless you want Shay to- hey, here she comes now." Carrie titters, her eyes dancing.
Cabel's eyes grow wide. He slips into the backseat of Carrie's car without a word. "Get me outta here. Fuckin' creepy cheerleaders.

Lisa McMann

#63. I want to feel you up like we're sixteen in the backseat of a car. On the outside of your clothes," he said just above a whisper. "Touch you all over, then slide my hands up under your shirt.

Rachel Gibson

#64. When was the last time you lost an argument?"
He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.

Nalini Singh

#65. We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Don Mattingly

#66. My Mother... would tell me to imagine Jesus was in the backseat... and that would stop me. What really stopped me was imagining my mother in the backseat.

Kimberley A. Johnson

#67. Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.

Oprah Winfrey

#68. Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.

John Feldmann

#69. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.

Annie Proulx

#70. Personal growth was damn hard work. It also took a lot of time, so it was going to have to take a backseat for a while.
Because right now, he had a battle to fight and Vampyre ass to kick.

Thea Harrison

#71. I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

Melissa McCarthy

#72. Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#73. You have a fuchsia heart. And a fuchsia heart doesn't die, it simply bides its time, taking a backseat to pragmatism, all while leaking helpless drops of color here and there. Hence, teal gables, turquoise earrings, and saffron scarves.

Barbara Delinsky

#74. don't be a backseat driver. Instead, quietly recite mantras of protection. For example: "You're going to get us all killed.

David M. Bader

#75. The truth never takes a backseat

Alex Rosenberg

#76. I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to wear the backpack, but it turned out the person wore the backpack with the dog in it.

Claire Cook

#77. Kat watched Gabrielle curl into a tiny ball like a kitten while Hale splayed across the limo's backseat, long legs and arms, and a head that, on occasion, would drift onto Kat's shoulder in a way she coudn't bring herself to mind.

Ally Carter

#78. I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.

Hillary Clinton

#79. I dream about reaching across the backseat and touching his hand. Just one hand. It closes slowly, tightly around mine, and the sensation of his skin against mine is astounding. I've never felt anything like it before.

Stephanie Perkins

#80. It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

Zach Condon

#81. A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

Demetri Martin

#82. And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that's flat

Skee-Lo

#83. When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Brene Brown

#84. In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Anna Godbersen

#85. ... sometimes in life, passion haste take a backseat to more everyday concerns. -said Trinh Cung

Gerard Sasges

#86. Elias revved the engine menacingly. I put my hand on the steering wheel. "That's my mom! Don't even think about it." "How about I just back over the ones behind us?" " Or the ones on the sidewalk," one of the guys in the backseat suggested. "Be serious," I said, though they might have been.

Tate Hallaway

#87. You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

Beyonce Knowles

#88. To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

Heather Brewer

#89. They were her kidnappers, sailing her across the lawn and into the backseat of the car, lifting up her feet while pivoting her around in a way that was disturbingly professional, as if stealing old people was what they did.

Ann Patchett

#90. He even pinched himself, just to make sure he'd actually woken up this morning to a pop star in his arms, a Bear on his front steps, and now, God in his backseat.

Amy Harmon

#91. The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.

Reggie Watts

#92. This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.

Chris McDaniel

#93. My plan was to go on my run, grab Ms. Fancy, drive like a cocaine-attled hell bat to the airport and hurl her and her bags out as I slowed down in the drop off lane.

Joshilyn Jackson

#94. It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it.

Joshilyn Jackson

#95. Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.

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