Best Lorry Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.”

Men Poor Streets Dangerous Car Occupation Bus Riding Traffic Competing Bicycle Chaotic Transport Poor Man Bombay Riding A Bicycle Lorry

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.”

People Ifs Years Said Important Might Artist Heard Important Things Dialogue Cooks Designer Drivers Chef Lorry

Author:Ferran Adria

“Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.”

Window Boat Grass Drivers Contracts Engineers Builder Skip Cutters Lorry Barmen

Author:Neal Asher

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

Long Mother Parent Grew Dad Grew Up Distance My Dad Drivers Long Distance Birmingham Barbados Catering Lorry

Author:David Harewood

“I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.”

Men Two Moments Father Hours Forget Saws Groups He Man Never Forget Clothings Peter Vans Loaded Selected Lorry

Author:Otto Frank

“So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".”

Humor Funny Train Disaster Load Turtles Tortoises Lorry

Author:Tommy Cooper

“So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.”

Knows Easy Car Clean Fuel Stations Airplane Petrol Lorry

Author:Richard Branson

“Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.”

Has Beens Might Asks Witness Kicks Might Have Been Stairs Accord Courtroom Staircases Lorry

Book:A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels

Source: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels

“The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.”

Giving Earth Morning Sun Air Red Calm Grindstone Morning Air Lorry

Book:The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens

Source: The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens

“Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.”

Knows Way Should Said Important Next Knowing Five Stupid Mets Extraordinary Miles Idiot Crash Supposing Lorry

Book:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.”

Giving Taxes Sight Give Me Paying Taxes Lorry

Author:Jon Richardson

“Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.”

People Want Order Flower Lust Conquer Fantastic Indian Covered Anarchy Grey Ugliness Lorry

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.”

Heart Littles Body Bigs Fall Lines Rain Wounds Graves Hips Recruit Lorry

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.”

Home Running Kids Mother Next Father House Individual Attention Survival Meals Drivers Lorry

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.”

Oil Strikes Bread Gas Lorry

Author:Ray Davies