Belts Quote by John Lanchester Download Open image “It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.” — John Lanchester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belts Business Driving Drunk Drunk driving Finance Ifs Invention Opportunity People Seat Belt Seat belts Seats Used
Years ago, people didn't wear seatbelts. Now, most people wouldn't get in a car without putting a seatbelt on. — John F. Kelly Copy Share Image
Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Driving is an activity that carries risk, which can be reduced by following the speed limit and wearing a seat belt. — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or… — Gerald McRaney Copy Share Image
Dangerous behaviors like distracted driving, speeding, and not wearing a seat belt and puts you and others at serious risk. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them. — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants… — Sarah Wollaston Copy Share Image
Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know. — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that the state… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The tie's a multi purpose accessory, y'know, belt, school boy, Rambo. — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one. — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, if I have samples, I can't tailor a sample. Or, I might have just bought something and I don't… — Olivia Palermo Copy Share Image
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate. — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise… — Dan Carter Copy Share Image
I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image