Susan Orlean Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.

  Susan Orlean

  Hate, Home, Phones

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

• You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

  Susan Orlean

  Car, Want, Information

  "Wheels" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2010.

• Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Winter, White

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

• Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

  Susan Orlean

  Car, Soul, Promise

  "Wheels" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2010.

• Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

  Susan Orlean

  Car, House, Fixation

  "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.

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