Commuting Quotes

I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

I think when you're done with work, you go home.

Industrialization divorces the family from society. The place of business moves away from the place of residence: the father goes to work in the plant or in the office, miles away from the home. Wife and children are no longer integrated into the productive work. They may, indeed, have their own jobs and go to work themselves; but even if they should work in the same plant or the same office as the man of the family, they do not work as a family unit.

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

I find buying a bicycle is a great way to stay in touch with people.

When I had started commuting into London for theatre school, I'd had to sell my uncle's stamp collection for £300.

I cycle, especially in warm weather. If I have a meeting in town, I would rather cycle than go by car.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

The freeways of America are like giant veins twisting and turning, rushing life from one zone to the next. The landscape is a giant body just lying there feeling the rumble.

Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.

I spend so much of my time on the road and traveling.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!

I don't love being on the road.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the suburbs.

If you goin' to work, you gonna put my album on. If you happen to be makin' an hour-and-a-half drive, you gonna put my album on, because people spend more time in their car then they do in clubs.

I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

When we moved to Laguna Niguel, there was one four-way stop sign between the freeway and PCH.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.