Drivers Quotes - Page 21

• They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

  Joni Mitchell

  Laughing, Dense, Used

  Song: Twisted

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• The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

  Paul O'Grady

  Baseball, Men, White

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• Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

  Buddy Rice

  Running, Exercise, Engineering

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• I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

  John Shelton Reed

  Nice, Successful, Thinking

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• I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

  John Slattery

  Limos, Used, Lost

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

  Brian Sandoval

  Support, Undocumented Immigrants, License

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• We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

  John Salazar

  Insurance Companies, Company, Seats

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• He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President.

  Mike Huckabee

  Running, Light, President

  "Huckabee throws a Mitt fit" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. February 21, 2011.

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• I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

  Dan Wheldon

  Thinking, Years, Waiting

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• Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

  Dan Wheldon

  Car, Together, Different

  IRL: Dan Wheldon teleconference transcript, part 1, www.motorsport.com. November 26, 2003.

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• I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.

  Lee Westwood

  Tired, Mean, Differences

  "Leaner and meaner". Interview with Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

  Douglas Pagels

  Cheer, Positive Thinking, Want

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• Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Mean, Problem

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• If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hate, Oil, Drunk

  "The NIRVANA Reader: 1988 - 1992". Book by John Luerssen, December 2008.

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• No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

  Nico

  Team, Order, Car

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• It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.

  Nico

  Dream, Home, Winning

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• I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

  Tony Stewart

  Vacation, Race, Car

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• Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy cars—for most people one of the most costly things they will ever own—with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Eye, Keys, Microsoft Word

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?"
  "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it."

  Alexander Woollcott

  War, Sight, Cities

  "The Paris Taxi-Driver Considered as an Artist". "Enchanted Aisles". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1924.

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• I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Thinking, White

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• The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Moving, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.

  Bill Mollison

  Worry, Design, Looks

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• I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

  John Barth

  Ships, Sometimes, Monsoons

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction”

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