Linwood Barclay Quotes

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

I've been a pretty impatient driver my entire life.

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'

I don't like a lot of drama on the road - I don't like prima donnas.

Sometimes motorists do irrational things.

I'm a bit of a reckless driver.

In life, we mostly manage to walk around interacting with each other fairly politely. But as soon as we get into our cars, we morph into something out of 'Mad Max'.

Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.

It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.

Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who's going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.

I am tired and weary because people are continually forcing me off the road. I was actually honked off once.

You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.

People who drive slow in the left lane on the highway! Are you kidding me? Don't you see everybody passing you, honking and flipping you off? It's not because everyone else is crazy, it's because you're driving slow in the fast lane, you jerk! OMG! It makes me crazy!