Driving Quotes - Page 15

• I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the desire to see new places, to discover new facts- the curiosity of life always has been a resistless driving force to me.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Decision, Curiosity, Desire

  "This Business Of Exploring". Book by Roy Chapman Andrews, 1935.

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• Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Lying, Expression, Technique

  "Painting and plastic art". De Stijl, series XIII, 73-4, pp. 17 - 18, 1926.

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• Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Home, Night, Opposites

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• The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Important, Littles, Facts

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 1), 1952.

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• The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

  William Poundstone

  Law, Numbers, Misunderstood

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.102, Macmillan

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• While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.

  Gary Shapiro

  Simple, Voice, Phones

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• I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Government, Upset, Allies

  "Improbable Heroes". Book by Carl L. Steinhous, p. 104, 2005.

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• My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

  Herbert Schiller

  Ignored, Economy, Superficial

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

  Mark Riebling

  Princess, Italian, Medicine

  "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

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• Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Writing, Thinking, Texas

  Carolyn Wheat (2011). “How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense”, p.31, SCB Distributors

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• I really don't have time "to Twitter," it's not something that should grab your day. That's a big misconception, actually, about the whole service. You don't go out of your way to tweet, you just post when you've got something. Hopefully, not while you're driving. It complements your life more than takes over your life.

  Chris Hardwick

  Hopefully Not, Over You, Way

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2009.

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• The Hillary team is driving around in a van. Sometimes people get those gag bumper stickers put on their van. Hillary has one on her van, and it says, 'If this van's rockin', I'm deleting emails.'

  David Letterman

  Team, People, Email

  "David Letterman's political guests: The jokes were on them" by Diana D'Abruzzo, Slide 14, www.politico.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.

  David Letterman

  Iowa, People, Clinton

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• You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!

  Richard Simmons

  Home, Giving, Parent

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

  Andy Rooney

  Baseball, Gun, Thinking

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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 police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

  Harriet Morgan

  Funny, Crazy, Heart

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• A driving range is the place where golfers go to get all the good shots out of their system.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Range, Shots

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• I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Restriction, Force

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Problem, Authority, Force

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

  Jennifer James

  Hurt, Names, People

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• [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Riding, Truck

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• What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Children, Technology, Made Up Stories

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.138, Bantam

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• By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Reading, Parent

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

  Eddie Murphy

  Eye, Force

  "Beverly Hills Cop II". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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