Drivers Quotes - Page 23

• We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

  Jay Leno

  Race, Car, Dresses

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• As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

  Gerry Spence

  Car, Loan, Freeways

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.

  Barack Obama

  War, Fire, Iraq

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• DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Grieving, Glasses, Aquariums

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2379, Delphi Classics

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• Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?

  Roger McGough

  People, Flying, Faces

  1982 'Waving At Trains'.

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• If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Fall, Angel

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• Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

  Anthony Crosland

  Air, Class, Differences

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Passion, Two

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  America, Levels, Prime

  Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.28, Vintage

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• All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!

  John Wallace

  Car, Racing, Special

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• When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

  William Sadler

  Writing, Cab Drivers, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!

  Jenny McCarthy

  Thinking, Numbers, Order

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• I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they are, where they're living. They're not paying taxes, but they're showing up in emergency rooms. They're driving up the cost of auto insurance 'cause they don't have driver's licenses and are getting into accidents. They're having children, which are US citizens. So, I mean, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Mean

  "EIB Interview: Why, Senator Rubio?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Doors, Judging

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 2), 1995.

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• I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

  Murray Walker

  Track, Envy, Frustrated

  "It's the last lap and ... I don't believe it! - Interview". The Sunday Times, December 17, 2000.

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• At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.

  Brock Yates

  Ak 47, Iron, Car

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• To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as they referred to themselves. That's exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public.

  Brock Yates

  Stars, Athlete, Cutting

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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

  Brock Yates

  Running, New York, Moon

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• Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Race, Skills

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• Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

  Brock Yates

  School, Race, Giving

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• We are not perfect. None of us is. I apologize for that flaw. I thank the governor for giving me a job with a driver.

  Zulima Farber

  Jobs, Giving, Perfect

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• One of those professional drivers hit one of those blockade barriers. It was the first car accident I have ever been in, so I was a little startled.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Car, Littles, Firsts

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• Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.

  David Richo

  Thinking, Discovery, Self

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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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• No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep, and I love his company. But I've trained myself to be able to work anywhere, and I write on trains, planes, in automobiles (if I'm not the driver), airports, hotel rooms. I travel often. If I couldn't write wherever I was I would get little done. I also can write in short bursts. Fifteen minutes are enough to move a story forward.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Moving, Home, Writing

  Interview with Jessica Day George, www.bookshoptalk.com. September 22, 2011.

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