Top 100 Quotes About Parking
#1. When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. Walkers easily travel three miles by foot. Drivers get in their cars to get from one side of the parking lot to the other. Neither quite understand why the other is so crazy, when it's so easy to do things their way.
Jacob Lund Fisker
#3. Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.
Clea Duvall
#4. Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
Bill Nelson
#5. Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.
Jim Butcher
#6. But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.
Woody Allen
#7. The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president!
Kevin Mitnick
#8. I had left the truck where I had crashed it - smashed into a pole by the charger station that had appeared out of nowhere when I had tried to park under a covered awning. Driving was a lot simpler than parking, it seemed.
Susan Kaye Quinn
#9. In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.
Victor Papanek
#10. Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"
Henny Youngman
#11. I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.
Jim Butcher
#12. They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.
Brian Regan
#13. When I applied for a handicap parking pass, they wouldn't take maleness as a medical condition.
Katie Graykowski
#14. Judging from the contents of her shopping cart - imported cheese, organic raspberries, fruit wash spray - she is the exact quality of parent we need at Galer Street. I saw her in the parking lot. She was driving a Lexus. Not a Mercedes, but close enough! Did
Maria Semple
#15. I'm screwed," Eric repeats, and shakes his head. "I have to go. Take care of her, okay?"
He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. "I always do," I say.
Jodi Picoult
#16. Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.
Jennifer Estep
#17. Oh, doll, I just did. Was it you he was fucking on the hood of Sex in the parking garage before dinner? I didn't think so.
K. Bromberg
#19. Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks "basically unfilmable" and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience.
Bret Easton Ellis
#20. There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.
Hunter S. Thompson
#21. Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar
#22. When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
Bob Edwards
#23. I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.
Ricardo Semler
#24. The question is: why can't parking lots be modest paradises?
Eran Ben-Joseph
#25. As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended.
Michael Lewis
#26. THE SLEEK BLACK AUDI ROLLED to a stop in the parking lot overlooking the cemetery, but none of the three men inside had any intention of paying respects to the dead. The hour burned past midnight, and the grounds were officially closed.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#27. You're not just anything." His voice rose a little and he snapped his mouth shut for a minute. He pulled out of the parking lot and headed toward the city. "Y're not just anything. Even 'just Sam' is something special.
Nichole Chase
#28. Most species of dragons had retired or, mistaken for dinosaurs, collectively hung their bones in museums, waiting in the wings for just the right time to reemerge, to scorch schools and char church parking lots.
Tom Cardamone
#29. Meow,' Cat Norman said simply, parking his big butt by my foot and looking up at me. 'Meow.'
'I hate you,' I told him. He didn't even flinch.
Sarah Dessen
#30. I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.
Risa Mickenberg
#31. Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they're out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.)
Dan Harris
#32. Giving yourself the privilege of destroying other positions while parking your own position in an unidentifiable location is a form of linguistic terrorism.
Ravi Zacharias
#33. I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.
Enrique Penalosa
#34. ONE OF THE THINGS that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. Recently, in France, I was hit square on the head by an automatic parking barrier, something I don't think I could have managed in my younger, more alert years.
Bill Bryson
#35. Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.
Joni L. James
#36. I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
Dan Hill
#37. They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.
N.D. Wilson
#39. If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
Larry Page
#40. As long as the people who kinda wanna go kill other people are going to go kill other people who kinda wanna go kill other people, you're killing all the right people and opening up all the best parking spaces.
Doug Stanhope
#41. When, a few months later, Goldman Sachs announced it was setting aside $542,000 per employee for the 2006 bonus pool, he wrote again: "As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended." In
Michael Lewis
#42. I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
Eli Roth
#43. If the war against drugs is lost, then so are the wars against theft, speeding, incest, fraud, rape, murder, arson, and illegal parking. Few, if any, such wars are winnable. So let us all do anything we choose.
Theodore Dalrymple
#44. Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
Henry Rollins
#45. I left Mermaid's Bar and Grill about 2:00 am, and fishtailed out of the parking lot.
Jarod Kintz
#46. Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into the parking space beside her Lexus, like an automotive version of Lady in the Tramp.
M.L. Brennan
#47. The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking lot late at night, your entire sense of danger would be heightened. You would stand straight. You'd walk quickly. You'd know where you were going. You would look for light.
James Comey
#48. My car rounds the corner, riding the path to the body shop. When I spot Alex leaning on his motorcycle waiting for me in the parking lot, my pulse skips a beat.
Oh, boy. I'm in trouble.
Simone Elkeles
#49. She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.
John Green
#50. I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
Calvin Trillin
#51. I guess the good news that the summer travel season that we were projecting is becoming a reality. We certainly felt that our numbers were going to be there. Our parking lots and parking garage have been full throughout the month.
Karen Carney
#52. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers
#53. At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.
William Kunstler
#54. When Lars first held her, his heart melted over her like butter on warm bread, and he would never get it back. When mother and baby were asleep in the hospital room, he went out to the parking lot, sat in his Dodge Omni, and cried like a man who had never wanted anything in his life until now.
J. Ryan Stradal
#55. My dad and I are very different people. For example, he's been stabbed; I'm afraid of bugs. He's a mechanic; I once had to exchange a "broken" rental car because I didn't realize I was driving around with the parking brake on. I could keep going, but you get it.
Jason Mulgrew
#56. Outside the airport, the caravan waited. Four silver Airstream trailers, three trucks, two parking violations and Aunt Dot. Stepping into the parking lot felt like coming home.
Hailey Edwards
#57. As we headed out toward the parking lot, Dan said "Why don't we take the truck? It's less conspicuous."
He had a point. With Fang sitting on the back of my motorcycle in his goggles we were more likely to draw attention than divert it.
YEAH, THAT'S 'CAUSE I'M SMOKIN'!
Parker Blue
#58. Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted evening, and even though you wanted to believe you had an infinite supply of evenings available for wasting, you didn't.
Jean Thompson
#59. The place was out in Jersey ... Newark. And while that made living with yourself harder, it did make parking somewhat easier.
Rob Thurman
#60. I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"
Paul Rust
#61. People fight over parking spaces more than they do for each other; then they bemoan the fact they can't find love.
Donna Lynn Hope
#62. The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.
Tom Vanderbilt
#63. (Although I tried to always keep in mind something a friend had once told me: "Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they're out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.") At
Dan Harris
#64. All around me were the noise of the crazy gold-coast city. And this was my Hollywood career - this was my last night in Hollywood, and I was spreading mustard on my lap in back of a parking-lot john.
Jack Kerouac
#65. In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.
Billy Corgan
#66. I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.
Saul Perlmutter
#67. Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.
Dan Jenkins
#69. If somebody that I cared about was crying alone in a parking lot," he said, wishing he could tell her that she was somebody he cared about, "at this time of night, I'd want somebody to call me.
Rainbow Rowell
#70. When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.
J.G. Ballard
#71. A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.
Karl Hess
#72. Trust arrives on foot but leaves in a Ferrari The Ferrari screeched out of the parking lot in 2008.
Mark Carney
#73. If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.
Steve Carell
#74. Don't assume anything. You don't have to live your life in fear, but know what's around you. Be smart. Don't go blindly into dark alleys or parking lots.
Richelle Mead
#75. It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
Steven Pressfield
#76. If there isn't a parking space out front or I can't see my car from the window, we're eating somewhere else.
Jay Leno
#77. I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
Maria Semple
#78. Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.
Greg Giraldo
#79. If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.
Michael King
#80. If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.
Ken Jennings
#81. Outside, the bare trees surrounding the parking lot rattled like a thousand dry bones.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#82. Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are
taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible.
PHOEBE TRAEGER
Jill Shalvis
#84. We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.
Cornel West
#85. I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.
Raymond Pettibon
#86. Not cheap-not on his salary. So outfitted, he crossed the parking
Anonymous
#87. No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.
Miranda Hart
#88. Best advice ever: Drive slow in parking lots.
K. Velk
#89. North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.
Bill Maher
#90. People worked us across the plaza and down to the parking structure. I moved with the crush of bodies the way a leaf is carried by the wind, a part of an unseen world, yet not.
Robert Crais
#91. Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!
Sylvester Stallone
#92. An empty plastic bag danced in the wind across the parking lot and I watched it thinking I knew exactly how it felt. It was on a path it couldn't control. So was I.
Abbi Glines
#93. A breeze wafted over her face, and she realized she was in the parking lot next to Jean-Luc's BMW. She must have
Kerrelyn Sparks
#94. I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.
Jim Butcher
#95. It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
Ed McMahon
#96. A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
Gloria Steinem
#97. I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.
Debra Messing
#98. Glenn Beck retired or got fired ... and a lot of people are asking who will now speak for the raving lunatics who startle you outside of a parking garage?
Bill Maher
#99. My parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.
Roseanne Barr
#100. I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
Sarah Dessen
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