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Your Quotes for 19 July 2005 - Parking

The world's first parking meters were installed in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on this day in 1935. Carl C. Magee had been appointed to the Chamber of Commerce's traffic committee and had invented a mechanical timer, and today was the first day a motorist was angered by needing to shove coins in one. There are now an estimated five million parking meters in use in the US, raising about $1.25 millions per day along with the blood pressure of an unknown number of drivers.

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
     - Clark Kerr, President, University of California at Berkeley

The perils of ambulatory reading. If you have never said Excuse me to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.
     - Sherri Chasin Calvo

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
     - Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'.
     - James Castle

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
     - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
     - Roman Polanski

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