Bill Bryson Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Fun

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe”, p.25, Random House

• On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Book, Long

• Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

  Bill Bryson

  Shopping, Car, Friendly

• Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Home, Average

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

• Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

  Bill Bryson

  Car, Lap, Way

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

• Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.

  Bill Bryson

  Fun, Nice, Book

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream”, p.262, Random House

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