Spare Tire Quotes

#1. I did it for you. I took in a pint of bourbon with me. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.

Raymond Chandler

#2. City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the condoms that wallow sluggishly on the foam's edge, discarded on the shore like the minuscule loathsome animals of the sea. Yeah, it's something, he says slowly.

Norman Mailer

#3. that town, they had gone under and now just the rotting empty shell remained. Having left all that was his home

Tim Heath

#4. Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.

Sophie Kinsella

#5. What's it about? she asked.
It's about love.
She laughed. They're all about love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

Mohamed El-Erian

#7. All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Mae West

#8. We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

Peter DeGraaf

#9. 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

#10. Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

David Chase

#11. Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Corrie Ten Boom

#12. Dead is dead, Cheris. Do you think it makes any difference whether you're killed by a knife in the back or a bullet?

Yoon Ha Lee

#13. Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

John Nance Garner

#14. Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.

Lynn Hubbard

#15. Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of his own salvation? The reason that there are so few is, because they will not be saved upon God's terms.

Richard Baxter

#16. Well, I tell myself, it could be worse. You could have been rescued by some fifty-year-old perv sporting a spare tire the size of a monster truck's who keeps his dead mother in the attic.

Rick Yancey

#17. Women are perfectly aware of any spare-tire, muffin-top bulge they may have. The last thing we need is a stranger reminding us that they're aware of it too.

Olive B. Persimmon

#18. Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.

Erich Maria Remarque

#19. Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

John Nance Garner

#20. In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

Jill Lepore