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  • I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of my life. I can trust my kid. I know my kid would be in the backseat of my car, and when I say You wanna get some ice-cream? he's going to be happy. My brother has kids. I see that trick work, the ice cream trick.

  • Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

    Real   Car   Together  
    Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

    FaceBook post by Brené Brown from Jun 13, 2013
  • We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

  • It can be seen as 'weak' to complain about health issues or worry about your health. But with younger guys, I think it's just a case of it being a secondary thought. We live pretty busy lifestyles these days. People have got work and social lives, and they party and spend a lot of time doing other things, and health just takes a backseat in a lot of cases. That's just the way a lot of people seem to live their lives.

    Party   Thinking   Issues  
    "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.
  • While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.

  • An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger

    Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.101, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

  • Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.

    Thinking   Car   Silence  
    Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin
  • She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.

    Eye   Want   Tongue  
  • Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. He was a warring star full of endless possibilities, but in the end, as he dreamt in the backseat on the way to the Barns that night, he created only this.

    Dream   Brother   Stars  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.385, Scholastic Inc.
  • Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.134, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.

    Daughter   Father   Party  
  • Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

  • We have to ensure free and open exchange of information. That starts with an open internet. I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality. Because once providers start to privilege some applications or websites over others then the smaller voices get squeezed out and we all lose. The internet is perhaps the most open network in history, and we have to keep it that way.

  • Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.

    Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.
  • In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

    Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
  • When was the last time you lost an argument?" He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.

    Thinking   Car   Ears  
    Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.198, Penguin
  • Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

    Work Out   Want   Way  
    Twitter post from May 28, 2012
  • It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

    Car   Easy   Easier  
    Source: collider.com
  • You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

    Fun   Play   Stuff  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere. They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed, Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough. A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.' I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow. You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee; Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

    Rap   Gun   Cities  
  • Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.

    Hate   Moving   Mean  
  • I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

  • Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

    Girl   Children   Boys  
    "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.
  • Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

    Wheels   Looks   Driving  
    "The GQ&A: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. January 11, 2012.
  • You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

    "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 202), 1986.
  • The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

    Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone
  • On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

    Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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