Sarah Dessen Quotes

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.

I put on music and I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you're trying to make love. You put that on in the background and you go, maybe this will be romantic.

My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but while you're sitting around waiting you can walk in that hallway where you look at the cars going through the window, and that could be changing exhibitions.

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.

My first car was a BMW. A white BMW.

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

I've never wanted to drive a car fast for the sake of it. I mean, I like nice cars. I've got the Bentley, I've had a Lotus, I've had a Rolls-Royce and a few Jaguars, including an E-type. But I'm not somebody for driving tremendously fast.

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.