Jane Smiley Quotes

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

I didn't pass my driving test till I was 38!

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.

Every single year, I tell myself I am going to drive. It never happens. I don't know how to drive. I am already 20. This needs to happen.

Something that I don't normally tell, and it's not necessarily because I wanna keep it from anybody - I just don't think about it - but one thing about me that not a whole lot of people know and that never really gets brought up is that I actually don't have a driver's license. I've never taken a driver's test.

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to.

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.

I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.

My wife had her drivers’ test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

I had to learn how to drive because I didn't drive in Toronto.

My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver.

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That's provided he hadn't died of a heart attack by then.

I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

I regret not learning to drive when I was younger.

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.

I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.