Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it's rather difficult to say which car or what car I ride. I love cars.

If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

I love driving my car on any highway.

I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.

I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

I hate cars.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

In an urbanizing world there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide not mobility but immobility.

When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

I may be one of the last New Yorkers who actually drives in the city daily.

When I'm in the car, if you didn't know my story and just saw me driving, you wouldn't know the difference between me and any of the other drivers. I'm just out there competing.

I love driving through Western Massachusetts, out through the Berkshires, when the road is empty and it's a nice day. I don't like driving home on Memorial Drive at 5:45 or 6:45 at night when it's crowded and stressful. I think that's true of most people, and the goal of automated driving is to take the stressful part of driving out of the task.

I grew up in L.A., and it's one of those cities designed around cars instead of the people that live there. I spent hours every day stuck in traffic, having the experience of looking around and seeing one person in every car.

Automobiles are fun and exciting. We need them. They are a part of our lives.

When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there.