Top 38 Motorway Quotes

#1. Who was the mad bastard who taught you to drive?' he asked, holding on tight as they swerved in and out between cars on the three-lane motorway leading to Ekeberg tunnel. 'Self-taught,' Beate said.

Jo Nesbo

Motorway Quotes #149418
#2. He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Terry Pratchett

Motorway Quotes #1812681
#3. When I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed
I've been dying all my life

Jenny Downham

Motorway Quotes #1805627
#4. From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

John Prescott

Motorway Quotes #1799059
#5. When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Motorway Quotes #1781980
#6. Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.

Paul Kingsnorth

Motorway Quotes #1456640
#7. The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath.

Jose Saramago

Motorway Quotes #1316137
#8. We should all let our inner voices take control from time to time. Let them have their say. We let them take control when we're driving down the motorway sometimes, and they don't do a bad job. Maybe we all need to have a little more faith in ourselves.

Peter James

Motorway Quotes #1308556
#9. There wasn't much to coo at when driving along a post-apocalyptic motorway. A stalled vehicle here, a mini pile-up there.

Wayne Simmons

Motorway Quotes #1271078
#10. In their eyes I must have appeared like some kind of nightmarish totem, a domestic idiot suffering from the irreversible brain damage of a motorway accident and now put out each morning to view the scene of his own cerebral death.

J.G. Ballard

Motorway Quotes #1225281
#11. I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

Jay Kay

Motorway Quotes #1196958
#12. My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

Morrissey

Motorway Quotes #1171134
#13. I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

Jeanette Winterson

Motorway Quotes #1123404
#14. Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

Alain De Botton

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#15. I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

Audrey Tautou

Motorway Quotes #1037345
#16. Her face is a map of remembered trouble and absorbed guilt, The green eyes look broken, as if their glass has shattered. A motorway pile-up of wrecked mascara. Lashes jeweled with tears.

Glen Duncan

Motorway Quotes #62596
#17. We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

Motorway Quotes #171100
#18. Many people fear the unknown. They busy themselves at motorway speed so to excuse their lack of understanding of the world around them.

Fennel Hudson

Motorway Quotes #383657
#19. To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

Geoffrey Boycott

Motorway Quotes #460214
#20. Wherever there is a large motorway enabling the transport of ton after ton of German goods, you will inevitably find a sweet little rabbit trembling by the roadside.

Timur Vermes

Motorway Quotes #509826
#21. As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor.

Ramsey Campbell

Motorway Quotes #543347
#22. My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Peter Capaldi

Motorway Quotes #599335
#23. Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn

Motorway Quotes #815218
#24. Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.

Neil Gaiman

Motorway Quotes #975098
#25. This particular type of road was a motorway. A motorway is the most advanced type of road there is, which as with most forms of human advancement essentially meant accidental death was considerably more probable.

Matt Haig

Motorway Quotes #983116
#26. I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Irwin Thomas

Motorway Quotes #1804540
#27. If you really want to persuade someone who doesn't wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story.

Steven D. Levitt

Motorway Quotes #1800216
#28. I worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard.

Tim Tebow

Motorway Quotes #1739897
#29. Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering

Andrew Solomon

Motorway Quotes #1708355
#30. Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Cleave

Motorway Quotes #1400552
#31. I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.

Aaron Paul

Motorway Quotes #1249546
#32. Lamentations ease the heart only by straining and exacerbating it more and more. Such grief does not even want consolation; it is nourished by the sense of its unquenchableness. Lamentations are simply the need to constantly irritate the wound.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Motorway Quotes #1123449
#33. Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

Ovid

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#34. America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

Kit Bond

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#35. A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

H.L. Mencken

Motorway Quotes #794508
#36. God does things that fly completely in the face of what we've all been taught that He is supposed to do and every time He does this, we all just say, 'Oh, well, I guess there must be some good reason why He did that.'

Paul Feig

Motorway Quotes #751705
#37. Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Motorway Quotes #328296
#38. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.

Jim Highsmith

Motorway Quotes #223764

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