Drivers Quotes - Page 5

• To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

  Jenson Button

  Morning, Race, Car

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• I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.

  Bryan Cranston

  Talking, Years, Craziness

  "Bryan Cranston Talks Drive, Breaking Dad and Total Recall at Tiff". Interview with Fred Topel, collider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.

  Sloane Crosley

  Running, Selfish, Thinking

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.99, Portobello Books

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• My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Grandma, Grandparent, Car

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• People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

  Adam Garcia

  Jobs, People, Important

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• A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

  Demetri Martin

  Drunk, Persuasive, Dangerous

  "Comedy Central Presents/ Demetri Martin". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Waiting, Forever, Getting Older

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• When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

  Tim McGraw

  Dad, Kids, Cowboy

  "Flicka". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

  John Mellencamp

  Car, Choices, Guy

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• In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Real, India, Inattention

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Blow, Hands

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• Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

  Haruki Murakami

  Horse, Way, Path

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• Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

  Janet Frame

  Mistake, Paper, Toilets

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• At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Smoking, Boards, Hats

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

  Gunter Grass

  Night, Singing, Empty

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• What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

  Steve Aylett

  Happens

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• We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Moving, Skills, People

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• On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

  Craig Ferguson

  Nice, Band, Pieces

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• By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

  John Green

  Beer

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.186, A&C Black

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• We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it doesn't matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

  John Green

  Real, Hands, Car

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Penguin

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• I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I’d like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.

  Meg Cabot

  Running, Past, Eight

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Every Boy's Got One”, p.321, Zondervan

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• Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Wheels, Dylan

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• To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

  Jerry Stahl

  Bus, Bus Driver

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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