Quotes of Parking - somelinesforyou

“ What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. ”

- Newt Gingrich

“ You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ It's like a big parking lot up there. There are lots of empty places, and you can park in one as long as it doesn't belong to someone else. ”

- Robert Grove Jr.

“ Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. ”

- Joseph T. Chew

“ In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold. ”

- Gary Washburn

“ When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. ”

- Steven Wright

“ A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. ”

- Laura Kightlinger

“ I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. ”

- Clark Kerr

“ I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. ”

- Princess Diana

“ Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'. ”

- James Castle

“ When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. ”

- Bob Edwards

“ Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot! ”

- Dave Barry

“ Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots. ”

- Jay Trachman

“ The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ”

- Robert M. Hutchins

“ The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ”

- Unknown

“ Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us. ”

- Unknown

“ Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. ”

- Will Rogers

“ I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there. ”

- John Flansburgh

“ I hate it driving more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things: parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage. Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror. ”

- Rachael Leigh

“ You know, I just want to keep on making movies. This medium, this forum has been incredible for me. As a kid, especially a teenager, I took a camera with me everywhere I went and it was my diary. I shot my friends, holidays, dinners, breakfasts, any moment-hanging out in parking lots… ”

- Soleil Moon Frye

“ Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. ”

- Alistair Cooke

“ A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response. ”

- Rex Julian Beaber

“ The first and most difficult task of dialogue involves parking the ego and listening with an open spirit. From this receptivity can come questions which lead to understanding. To ask these questions requires that one no longer need to have the best or last answer… ”

- Ann McGee Cooper
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