Driving Privilege Quotes

The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

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.

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

When I get into a car - any car - I still find it amazing that I'm allowed to drive it away.

Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.

I got a car when I was 16. I didn't even have a driver's license.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.

My wife does all the driving.

In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.

I am happy that I will be able to drive again and I will also see Eddie Jordan again, as it's been some time since I had direct contact with him. I am really curious to see what it's like with the Jordan team and how they will react to me, what they want to tell me.

If I don't drive then I am not the same person. Ever since I was a small boy this is my life.

I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all the time - I might get out of that ticket. Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.

When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege. There isn't a person on this planet by this time who doesn't know that when you consume alcohol you shouldn't get behind the wheel of a car. The people who do it anyway should have their privilege to drive taken away.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds.

There's lots of people driving on the roads who don't have licenses. They're still going to work, still going to school. I want them to get a license and insurance so they're driving safely.

I didn't have any money to buy a car, so when I got my license I did not have a car at first.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

For me, driving - or the right to drive - is not only about moving from A to B; it's a way to emancipate women. It gives them so much liberty. It makes them independent.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.