Pickup Truck Sayings

#1. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.

Kelly Link

#2. Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Sissy Spacek

#3. I love driving the cool cars, but there is nothing like driving a pickup truck.

Dwayne Johnson

#4. Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow, others point out. On the East Coast they seem to think there's something funny about riding around in a pickup truck. Well in the Deep South, we don't think it's all that natural to hurdle through the dark in a crowded subway.

Maryln Schwartz

#5. I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

Gary Paulsen

#6. Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Tim Allen

#7. You're sending him to space under a tarp." "Pretty much, yeah." "Like a hastily loaded pickup truck." "Yeah. Can I go on?" "Sure, can't wait.

Andy Weir

#8. You may be a redneck if ... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

Amy Dickinson

#10. There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

Cassandra Clare

#11. My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#12. Wearing a $1,000 suit and driving a Ferrari may be better than riding around in a beaten-up
pickup truck, but when it's all said and done, it'll be the experiences you remember, not the stuff.

John Hawkins

#13. Even as a guy with pickup truck sensibilities, I have always gone a little in the liver for patchouli.

Michael Perry

#14. The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

Larry Merchant

#15. He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

Richard O'Brien

#16. Because everyone is still treating me with kid gloves, Pigpen's driving me in his pickup truck, blasting music that's more screaming than music. I prefer electric guitar over voices, but it's not my fucking truck.

Katie McGarry

#17. He can't quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man's deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work.

Russell Banks

#18. Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He'd better not be falling for her. Sure she's cute, but I can't think about that.

Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#19. I never wanted anything so much, I've got to have one. I want a girl in a pickup truck.

Rick Trevino

#20. Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.

Steve Largent

#21. I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually. And I used to have a Dodge truck. So I used to have all three covered.

Mitt Romney

#22. The vamp-mobile had vanished at some point during the wee hours, replaced by a huge pickup truck I could only assume belonged to a werewolf. Or a Republican from north Louisiana - hard to tell the difference.

Cecily White

#23. It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

Sam Walton

#24. [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

Alec Baldwin

#25. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding.

Richard Russo

#26. I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

Kathleen Hanna

#27. THERE WAS NOWHERE ON EARTH more desolate than a Gristedes on New Year's Eve.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#28. My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be learned through a lifetime of Catholic education.

Emma Chase

#29. There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.

Rachel Hartman

#30. You are a light born to shine. You are not who the world thinks you are. You are not what you think you are. You are as God created you. Never see yourself less than that. You are powerful than you know!

Kemi Sogunle

#31. Hen two friends discuss money, the third friend should invariably be asleep.

Dorothy Dunnett

#32. Kids don't give a shit about clipboards.

David Levithan

#33. Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere ... they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

Victor J. Stenger

#34. Let your spirit shine in the sky.

Debasish Mridha

#35. In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

Vaclav Havel

#36. If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

Charlie Ergen

#37. Outside, the guys took care of loading the groceries into the back of Shane's pickup. Emilie watched as four very attractive men stretched over the lowered tailgate to place the bags in the truck bed. A girl could get used to this.

Laura Kaye

#38. That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

Bonnie Jo Campbell