Lorry Quotes

• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Might, Stairs, Staircases

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.62, Penguin

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

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Turtles

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

  Jon Richardson

  Sight, Giving, Paying Taxes

  "Edinburgh festival rapid review: Jon Richardson" by Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• 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.

  Richard Branson

  Airplane, Car, Fuel

  "Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• 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.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Order, People

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Air, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.837, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Otto Frank

  Father, Men, Two

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• 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.

  David Harewood

  Mother, Dad, Distance

  "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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

  Neal Asher

  Boat, Window, Grass

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• 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.

  Ferran Adria

  Artist, Years, People

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• 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.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Men, Car, Riding A Bicycle

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• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Knowing, Important

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Mother, Running, Father

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• 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.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.57, Random House

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

  Ray Davies

  Oil, Bread, Strikes

  Song: (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman, Album: Low Budget

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