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  • Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' -- Tommy Cooper
  • I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. -- Princess Diana
  • Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. -- Eli Roth
  • Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park. -- Jordana Brewster
  • A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. -- Bill Vaughan
  • My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?' -- Adam McKay
  • You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine -- Tommy Cooper
  • Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer. -- Chaz Bundick
  • 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
  • You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice. -- Tim Vine
  • Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free. -- Jason Alexander
  • Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements. -- Donald Shoup
  • Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is. -- Dr. Dre
  • They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. -- Joni Mitchell
  • The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. -- Will Rogers
  • Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. -- Bill Vaughan
  • As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible. -- Bill Vaughan
  • Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. -- Evan Esar
  • We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. -- John Lennon
  • Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. -- Maya Angelou
  • The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it. -- Stephen Breyer
  • It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas. -- Edward Abbey
  • We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters. -- Spencer W. Kimball
  • The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again. -- Richard Brautigan
  • I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since. -- Steve Jobs
  • So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose -- Martin Seligman
  • I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break. -- Angela Kinsey
  • A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. -- Lewis Mumford
  • 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
  • When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. -- Bob Edwards
  • If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery. -- Michael King
  • We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. -- Ronald Reagan
  • If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness. -- Larry Page
  • I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense. -- Ike Barinholtz
  • Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. -- Thomas Frank
  • Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. -- Maya Angelou
  • I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical. -- Edward Ruscha
  • I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space. -- Tom Bodett
  • When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. -- Maureen Dowd
  • The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype. -- Bill Simmons
  • I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. -- Henry Rollins
  • Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about. -- Tom Scholz
  • Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck! -- John Madden
  • Say no to parking lots! -- John Bytheway
  • using parking meters as walking sticks. -- Tom Waits
  • The sermon begins in the parking lot. -- Andy Stanley
  • Be advised that there is no parking in Europe. -- Dave Barry
  • Valet parking is an essential at any decent club. -- Dan Jenkins
  • 33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space. -- Donald Shoup
  • A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is. -- Karl Hess
  • Women are like parking spots, the best ones are handicapped. -- Zach Braff
  • I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent. -- Calvin Trillin
  • All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas. -- Dionne Warwick
  • Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them -- Megan Amram
  • My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot. -- Ben Quayle
  • No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking. -- Allan Jacobs
  • I hate pulling out... I mean, I'm really bad at the whole parking thing.... -- Josh Stern
  • When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot. -- R. C. Sproul
  • The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space -- Paul Theroux
  • Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end. -- Isaac Asimov
  • The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking. -- Clark Kerr
  • What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary? -- Derek Landy
  • Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space. -- Gene Perret
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  • Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. -- Will Rogers
  • Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people. -- Donald Shoup
  • Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped. -- Clea Duvall
  • Those Walmarts weren't buildings, they were bunkers. Those weren't parking lots out front, they were kill zones. -- Gard Skinner
  • Trust arrives on foot but leaves in a Ferrari The Ferrari screeched out of the parking lot in 2008. -- Mark Carney
  • I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. -- Laura Kightlinger
  • I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking. -- Enrique Penalosa
  • I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell. -- Bob Hope
  • Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym. -- Don King
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  • No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs. -- Miranda Hart
  • I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas. -- Jane Lynch
  • Gay Republicans, how exactly does that work? 'We disapprove of our own lifestyle. We beat ourselves up in parking lots. -- Paula Poundstone
  • We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender. -- Winston Churchill
  • Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant. -- Bill Nelson
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  • I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball. -- Brooks Robinson
  • The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think. -- Tom Vanderbilt
  • If there isn't a parking space out front or I can't see my car from the window, we're eating somewhere else. -- Jay Leno
  • Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but okay to go the bathroom in a handicapped stall? -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • Did I hurt you in the parking lot?" "No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car." Great. -- Ilona Andrews
  • The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office. -- James Garner
  • Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly. -- Donald Shoup
  • If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving. -- Lawrence Lessig
  • I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net. -- Dean Lombardi
  • Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. -- Saul Perlmutter
  • Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!" -- Henny Youngman
  • On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space. -- Malcolm Bradbury
  • 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
  • We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass. -- George Patterson
  • Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue. -- Richard Dawkins
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  • Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike. -- Ronald Steel
  • You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space. -- Laurence Fox
  • Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated. -- Rachel Maddow
  • A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can't find a parking place. -- Paul Theroux
  • In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation. -- Victor Papanek
  • I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot. -- Stephen Richards
  • I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it. -- Saul Williams
  • Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship. -- Shirley Temple
  • Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him. -- Dov Davidoff
  • It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot. -- Steven Pressfield
  • You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car! -- Homer
  • My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot! -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot. -- Sarah Dessen
  • Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers. -- David Foster Wallace
  • Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot. -- Earl Wilson
  • I want to leave a legacy. I'll leave him in the trunk, tied up, at a parking garage on the campus of the university where he graduated. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right. -- Robert Preston
  • Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again. -- Rob Sheffield
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