Backseat Quotes - Page 2

• you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've been up to, what they're going to do next,       as if you're a photo on the wall.And then they talk to one another, forgetting you've jsut flown in, forgetting you're in the backseat, forgetting they've already said it all.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Wall, Home, Waiting

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Cities, Ashes

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• While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.

  Nathan Winograd

  Animal, Birth Rate, People

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• Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

  Scott Simon

  Girl, Children, Boys

  "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

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• ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere.
  They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed,
  Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough.
  A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.'
  I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow.
  You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee;
  Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

  KRS-One

  Rap, Gun, Cities

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• This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.

  Chris McDaniel

  Party, Movement, Today

  "Chris McDaniel Accuses GOP Of ‘Abandoning The Conservative Movement’ After Runoff Loss" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• 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

  Track, Car, Hip Hop

  Song: I Wish, Album: I Wish, 1995

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• Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. He was a warring star full of endless possibilities, but in the end, as he dreamt in the backseat on the way to the Barns that night, he created only this.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Brother, Stars

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.385, Scholastic Inc.

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• Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.

  John Feldmann

  Daughter, Song, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Distance, Mirrors, Bmw

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.164, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Technology, Perspective, Car

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel it's easier to sit in the backseat and go, "Oh, yeah, let's go there." You're not worried about getting to the destination. But the guy or the woman who has to get you to the destination is worried about a lot of other things, so my job as an actor is to try as many things as possible, be as open as possible, listen, and keep my heart open.

  Susan Sarandon

  Jobs, Heart, Guy

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?

  Doug Benson

  Grandma, Smell, Car

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• Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Daughter, Father, Party

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• The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened to make sure that it keeps its hold on policy making. Well, I hope, and there seem to be some signs, that the military is taking a backseat, not really in the economy, but in some of the policy issues. If that can continue, which perhaps it will, this will be a positive development.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Policy Making, Issues

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Car, Silence

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin

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• I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of my life. I can trust my kid. I know my kid would be in the backseat of my car, and when I say You wanna get some ice-cream? he's going to be happy. My brother has kids. I see that trick work, the ice cream trick.

  Adam Sandler

  Brother, Kids, Ice Cream

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• So we have that, where there are moments where it's just Nic Cage and Amber Heard and you're in the car with them and it's not stuff flying at your face but you're literally sitting in the backseat. You're sitting there and it's just sort of interesting. At the same time we're going to throw cars and guns and bullets and frogs and naked people at your face because it's fun and that's the roller coaster. We do write some things for 3-D.

  Todd Farmer

  Fun, Writing, Gun

  Source: collider.com

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• While shooting Ten I was sitting in the backseat, but I didn't interfere. Sometimes, I was following in another car, so I was not even present on the "set", because I thought they would work better in my absence.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Car, Sitting, Shooting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, America, Safe

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sports, Training, Combat

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I’ll bet there’s a big stain there. (Tee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sitting, Checks, Yeah

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