Parking – Quotes

Family: A social unit

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. Evan Esar

It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through … if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of … Read more

I was almost impeached

I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking. Enrique Penalosa

By the time they

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As … Read more

I was listening to

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my ’80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N’ Roses. Eli Roth

Much of my youth

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin’ Donuts. Eli Roth

I was attracted to

I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I’ve grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn’t bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical. Edward Ruscha

Wilderness and motors are

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong — on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas. Edward Abbey

It\\’s really kind of

It’s really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don’t have a downtown, you really don’t have anything. It’s hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. Ed McMahon

Many a standing ovation

Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot. Earl Wilson