Jane Smiley Quotes

I don't know how to drive.

I have older boys and two of them are driving which is scary to me just because of the police nowadays.

I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.

If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

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.

From the time I was taught how to drive, I was taught how to behave when I'm stopped.

My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.

Just because you have experience driving doesn't necessarily mean you have experience teaching how to drive.

As a driver, you have to accept that some years are more challenging than others. That's part of the game.

I think I'm so much of a better driver than I was when I first came to Duke; that's the biggest thing for me.

I am a pretty bad driver, so when I drive, I need to be calm. I can't be vibing to DMX, all hype, in the car.

Back when I was a young lad, I'm not condoning this, but there wasn't as much traffic on the roads. My dad used to drive a Hillman Avenger, and he would take me on the road driving that.

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

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

People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

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

I am a very good driver - a defensive driver.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

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.

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.

As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.