Brake Quotes - Page 5

• There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

  Paul Newman

  Law, Two, Black

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• Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby Film tie-in Edition: Official Film Edition including interview with Baz Luhrmann”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

  Anthony de Mello

  Being Yourself, Fear, Failure

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• Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

  Elbert Hubbard

  History, Progress, Needs

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Running, Country, Schedules

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• For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

  Kirk Hammett

  Devil, Growing, Stuff

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• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Spring, Rocks

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Letting Go, Fighting, Winter

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• I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Car, Feelings, Hitting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.499, Scholastic Inc.

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• Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Cells, Vaccines

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it's difficult to pass.

  Valentino Rossi

  Strong, Trying, Riders

  "Barcelona GP Winner Valentino Rossi INTERVIEW". Interview with Maria Guidotti, www.cycleworld.com. June 7, 2016.

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• I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

  Anais Nin

  Analysis, Paralyzed

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• Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

  Paul Newman

  Law, Racing, Useless

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• I'm always on the road, and I drive rental cars. Sometimes I don't know what's going on with the car, and I'll drive for ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. What kind of emergency is this? I need to not stop now. It's not really an emergency brake, it's an emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Smell

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• As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Running, Bullets, Doe

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• We disparage reason.
  But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.
  There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.
  Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

  Robert Frost

  Gears, Reason, Steering

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night.

  Eddie Money

  Night, Social Taboos, Hot

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• The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

  Tom Kristensen

  Mean, Car, Tyres

  "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.

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• [...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.

  Hugh Laurie

  Couple, Wall, Mean

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• 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
  The hilly brakes around,
  For under thorn and bramble
  About the hollow ground
  The primroses are found.
  And there's the windflower chilly
  With all the winds at play,
  And there's the Lenten lily
  That has not long to stay
  And dies on Easter day.

  A. E. Housman

  Easter, Spring, Wind

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.

  Liane Moriarty

  Memories, Party, Men

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• But you have to learn to bend a little," "Or you'll brake." -Clarissa Fray

  Cassandra Clare

  Littles, Fray, Clarissa Fray

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• Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

  Ilona Andrews

  Tired, Pretending, Standing

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.39, Penguin

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• It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

  Phil Angelides

  Business, Car, Sound

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• Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Names, Storm

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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