Patrick Murray Quotes

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see what's ahead of them.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

There are two things you find in the middle of the road—a moderate and a dead skunk.

Potholes know no party.

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

When you're driving on a normal track, you can see the braking point from 500 m. away.

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.

I drive like my body and my limitations leave me to do it. After my accident, I discovered that to do a roundabout in the road car, you don't have to grab the steering wheel, you can use friction to turn.

To me, speed kills.

On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a road near Latina, in the region of Lazio, near Rome.

It's not until after you've been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.