Driving Quotes - Page 40

• I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Children, Giving

  Isadora Duncan (1927). “My life”

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• Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

  Laurence Sterne

  Food, Thinking, Paris

  Laurence Sterne (1999). “Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.497, Modern Library

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• "Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

  Robert Glasper

  Song, People, Lasts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.

  David Titley

  Technology, World, Ships

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.

  Jim Parsons

  Mom, Brother, Men

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

  Shelley Long

  Crazy, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

  Don Winslow

  Drunk, Population, Substance

  "A Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• On weekends when everybody would go to the football games, I would be getting on a plane or driving my car across the state or across the country to go do a show somewhere and yeah so, I never thought of doing anything else.

  Jeff Dunham

  Country, Football, Weekend

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

  Patrick Stump

  Two, People, Creative

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, People, Training

  Source: shawnlealos.tumblr.com

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• [In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dirty, Drunk, Dui

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• For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

  Virginia Graham

  Three, Driven, Type

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• I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.

  Dervla Murphy

  Real, Water, Desire

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• How to Tell If Shoes Fit: Walking around the shoe store is not going to tell you any more than test-driving a car around a showroom. And those little mirrors? That's so you can tell how your cat is going to like your shoes. The real way to tell how shoes fit is how badly you want them.

  Mimi Pond

  Real, Cat, Mirrors

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• running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

  Brenda Ueland

  Fitness, Running, Nuts

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Running, Men, Race

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• Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Bridges, Tolls, Honest

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

  Ruth Rendell

  Years, Civilization, Car

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• Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Dictator, Force, Tyranny

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• As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

  Wanda Sykes

  Marriage, Car, Motorcycle

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• you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.

  Irina Ratushinskaya

  Being Yourself, Hate, Years

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• When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver's seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

  Adyashanti

  Way, Flow, Illusion

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.118, Sounds True

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

  Bushwick Bill

  Flying, Shooting, Stabbing

  "Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop". Book by Ben Westhoff, 2011.

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