Backseat Quotes

• I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

  Nina Blackwood

  Rocks, Littles, Rock N Roll

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• The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

  Jerry Rubin

  Sex, Revolution, Rebellious

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

  Demetri Martin

  Drunk, Persuasive, Dangerous

  "Comedy Central Presents/ Demetri Martin". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

  Don Mattingly

  Work Out, Decision, Temptation

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• You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

  Akio Morita

  People, Understanding, Machines

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 202), 1986.

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• When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

  Brené Brown

  Riding, Driving, Annoying

  FaceBook post by Brené Brown from Jun 13, 2013

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• It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

  Zach Condon

  Crazy, Needs, Might

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• Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Work Out, Want, Way

  Twitter post from May 28, 2012

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• Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Moving, Mean

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• Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Causes, Accidents

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• Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

  Suze Orman

  Thoughtful, Planning, Financial

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• Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Wheels, Looks, Driving

  "The GQ&A: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

  Stephen King

  Creative, Legs, Spread

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• Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher
  than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Attitude, Car, Political

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.134, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

  Lee Smolin

  Sports, Bridges, Earthquakes

  Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Real, Car, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

  Rick McCallum

  Car, Easy, Easier

  Source: collider.com

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• Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Responsibility, Government

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.230, Penguin

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• Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Opportunity, Long

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Running, Believe

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• I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dirty, Ambition, Thinking

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• Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked," I said. "We did it." Of course it worked," Tera said. "Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.

  Jim Butcher

  Couple, Men, Doors

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.495, Penguin

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• That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Moving, Wind

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• A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Car, Legs

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.296, Penguin Books India

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• When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Real, Kids

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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