Backseat Quotes

The backseat produced the sexual revolution. (Jerry Rubin)

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Anna Godbersen

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

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

Suze Orman

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

Demetri Martin

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

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

Nina Blackwood

Edward rode in the backseat of my father's police car, behind the fiberglass divider, with an amused expression - probably due to my father's amused expression, and the grin that widened every time Charlie stole a glance at Edward in his rearview mirror.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Has anyone seen Church? I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church in the backseat of a car.

Cassandra Clare

As for me, I'm stuck in a loveless relationship with myself, the backseat driver who can't stop tutting and nagging. There's no escape from me's relentless criticism. Me even knows what I'm thinking, and routinely has a pop at Me for that. "You're worrying about your obsessive degree of self-criticism again," whines Me. "How pathetically solipsistic." And then it complains about its own bleating tone of voice and starts petulantly kicking the back of the seat, asking if we're there yet. (Charlie Brooker)

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

I always say that countries that keep women in the backseat will always end up on the wrong side of history.

Manal al-Sharif

As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I've been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.

Genelia D'Souza

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

I said I would write a introduction on one condition, that you people don't send me emails telling me liking war is a sign of unhealthiness or some psychoanalytical crap. I'm a war nerd. A backseat sergeant. I know what I am.

Gary Brecher