Car Trip Quotes

#1. I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#2. Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.

Lev Grossman

#4. Looks like I'm enduring a two-hour car trip with the human equivalent of a splinter - a sexy splinter.

Lia Riley

#5. 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

#6. Thanks for going in with me," I told her.
"No problem, there is too much testosterone in the car without you. I'm outnumbered. Besides, coffee sounds perfect," Nessa, said as she got in line for our drinks.
-Cora and Nessa at Starbucks

Andrea Heltsley

#7. The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

Kim Harrison

#8. 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

#9. The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.

Kari Martindale

#10. To win the X Factor would mean the world to me and my family. I'd buy mum and dad a house and then I think I would buy myself a car and have a little shopping trip.

Leona Lewis

#11. Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

Nicholas Kristof

#12. She hoped the menfolk were having a nice, relaxing road trip in that souped-up man car they were riding in because as soon as they got to the Roberts' house, she was pawning off the woman formerly known as her sister onto the dude whose sperm had apparently turned her into a she-devil.

Julie James

#13. Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

Daniel Gilbert

#14. Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.

Ryan Gosling

#15. It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

Rachel Caine

#16. In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions.

Neal Stephenson

#17. Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle.

Karen Armstrong

#18. Life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.

Peter Kreeft

#19. Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't take
The freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you got. Unpaved back roads
And bad weather. Storms, baby. Don't expect to get there fast.
And don't expect yourself or your car to arrive in mint condition.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#20. And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

Richelle Mead

#21. Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#22. Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door.

Lili Wright

#23. The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

Ben Falcone

#24. Because trying to think of how to ask a woman you've known for exactly two days if she'd be willing to get into a car with you and take a road trip across the country was something I hadn't quite worked up to yet.

Elle Lothlorien

#25. [The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

(The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101)

E.L. Doctorow