Kindlehighlight Quote by John Lanchester Download Open image ““of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.”” — John Lanchester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kindlehighlight
It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Like good sex, driving the car was a study in exhilarating restraint and control.” — Jennifer Ashley Copy Share Image
“It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“In driving, one assumes the danger of destroying life, beginning with one’s own.” — Richard T. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Nobody was hurt, thank God, because both drivers were wearing seat belts. Thank God, thank God.” — vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I like dull.” I fastened my seatbelt. “Life just didn’t get the memo.” — Hailey Edwards Copy Share Image
“Alex the pilot heaved a sigh and said, “I am required by FAA regulations . . . blah blah . . . seat belt . . . blah . . .” — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“It takes more courage than one would expect to sit in a car you know you're going to wreck and even more to take… — John Goode Copy Share Image
“The Hummer hovered there a second, and then flipped over the second vehicle. Through the air it tipped over and over--something was flung from… — Jennifer L. Armentrout 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
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.” — David Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
“I pulled the dress out of the bag and held it in front of me. Ella sat up straighter and squinted her eyes, while… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
“little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right.… — Paul Miller Copy Share Image
“What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is… — R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey Copy Share Image
That love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took… — William J. Bennett Copy Share Image
“I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been… — Frank I. Luntz Copy Share Image
