Chauffeurs Quotes

• A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Presence Of Mind, Quality, Add

  "Rachmaninoff's Recollections". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, p. 155, 1934.

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• I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

  Henny Youngman

  Wife, Luck, Lasts

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• I never take anything for granted. I think it's very cool to still get excited about things. I get as excited now as I ever did when I get a chauffeur driven car pick me up and I stay in a fantastic hotel or get to fly in a private plane. I never want to get blasé.

  Victoria Beckham

  Thinking, Car, Pick Me Up

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Money, Way, Financial

  "Stop The "Joy Riding" By Arresting Chauffeur And Not The Automobile". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. January 14, 1914.

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• Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

  Thomas Beecham

  Writing, Boys, Tunes

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• To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made.

  Iris Apfel

  New York, Good Life, Two

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• When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

  John Lennon

  Car, Fans, Wrecks

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• When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

  Paul McCartney

  Mean, Thinking, Car

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• My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France

  Lillie Langtry

  Husband, France, My Husband

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• My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

  Paul Nurse

  Mother, Father, Years

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• The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

  Michael Gove

  Mother Daughter, Party, Class

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• I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Bars, Use

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• Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

  Ralph Harper

  Intelligent, Mind, Wheels

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• The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.

  Michael Caine

  Hate, Luxury, Car

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Golf, Law

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• Nurses nurse
  and teachers teach
  and tailors mend
  and preachers preach
  and barbers trim
  and chauffeurs haul
  and parents get to do it all.

  Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

  Teacher, Nurse, Parent

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• It's the chauffeur's outfit from hell, right down to the alligator shoes. I was wearing these alligator shoes and this very interesting and haunting chauffeur's outfit, but what really did it for me was the hat. And then, when I eventually get my eye taken out, the gold eye really brought it home for me.

  Dennis Haysbert

  Taken, Home, Eye

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• ... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Art, Writing

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

  Ben Kingsley

  Hunters, Looks, Jaguars

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• I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my boobs down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life.

  Kate Siegel

  Mother, Baby, Years

  "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

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• Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

  Linda McCartney

  Dirty, Kids, Air

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• The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

  William S. Burroughs

  Self, Lines, Pimping

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1976). “The retreat diaries”

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• We are all a little bit racist. White people, y'all are the first people to denounce it. I'm not racist. I'm incapable of being racist. My best friend is black... He's also my chauffeur, but he's my best friend.

  Aries Spears

  White, People, Black

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• Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Mother, Children, Home

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