Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

Some cyclists are complete prats, obviously, but so are some drivers.

A lot of people has lost their lives due to indiscipline on the roads.

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

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.

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

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

Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

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

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.

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.

I drive relatively fast - within the remits of the law, obviously - but I struggle with people who do stupid things on the road. I have a massive urge to shout expletives at them.

For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.

On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.

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.

The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

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?'

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Lynching—unlike simple murder—is a form of collective violence in which individuals act with the explicit or implicit support of the community, or at least without its condemnation.

Abolish lynching