Driving Quotes - Page 12

• Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Boys, Pigs

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Degrees, Arms, Should

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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Passion, Writing, Desire

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Taken, Causes, Bigs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Passion, Play

  Source: www.nolivelost.com

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• Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

  Chris Hardwick

  Writing, Ideas, Waiting In Line

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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• The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Skills, Survival, Training

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are:
  You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing.
  I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up.
  As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel.
  I know exactly how to get under your skin.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Attitude, Crazy, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.85, Penguin

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• Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.

  Russell Crowe

  Hurt, Fighting, Thinking

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Tree

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

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• Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Kids, Two, Boring

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• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Passion, Mean, Climbing

  "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.

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• The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Distance, Car, Trying

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV and it just changed my whole perspective of driving and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.

  Lauren Lee Smith

  Perspective, Car, Suvs

  "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Saving, May

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

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• He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Player, Mvp

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• Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  School, Museums, Drs

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to shows. Just being with people I really have fun with. I love the summer. I'm happy in the summer. Love hot, hot weather. I'm happy when I'm making a record, most of the time.

  Lana Del Rey

  Summer, Fun, Ocean

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• I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Years, Tough Times, Missing

  "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

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• Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Self, Car, Looks

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• I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

  Trevor Phillips

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Car, Wish

  "Bubble? What Bubble?". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. July 07, 2011.

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