Race Car Quotes - Page 4

• Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Girl, Cake, Car

  "2 States: The Story of My Marriage". Book by Chetan Bhagat, October 8, 2009.

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• It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

  Chris Gerdes

  Technology, Race, Car

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• Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

  Janet Guthrie

  Race, Car, Males

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• The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Hands, Car, Racing

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• I've never been to a race car race before.

  Christina Ricci

  Race, Car

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• Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

  Charlie Kimball

  Race, Car, Support

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• Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

  James Dyson

  Car, Design, Racing

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• Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Race, Apples, Car

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• You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

  Steve Harvey

  Race, Class, Piano

  "Steve At Ease". Interview with Kam Williams, www.insightnews.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

  George Lucas

  Summer, School, College

  "the force". Interview With Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It’s all just a use of your thinking.

  Michael Nesmith

  Moon, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  Gary Oldman

  Children, Drawing, Car

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• The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.

  Paul Schrader

  Silly, Dirty, Emotional

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• Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• We ran well there in the November 2012, my first race with (Tony) Gibson (as crew chief). Unfortunately, we haven't left there without a torn up race car. We got caught up in accidents in November of 2012 and then again in November 2013. We cut a tire and crashed last spring, so it'd be nice to have a good clean run with the GoDaddy car. I like Phoenix and Gibson has won there a few times. Hopefully our luck will turn around and we can have a good smooth run and get back on track.

  Danica Patrick

  Running, Nice, Spring

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• We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

  Thomas Sowell

  Lying, Race, Play

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• I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

  Jenson Button

  Moving, Race, Car

  Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• After 20 years of racing career the most important lessons I learned is that you need to have the passion and really love to ride your bike every day at the highest level. Also, for me personally, my goal was to always try to beat another generation, to try to beat the sport again. Trying to develop myself even when I was 37 years old.

  Sven Nys

  Sports, Passion, Goal

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• Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Games, Racing

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• Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.

  Deroy Murdock

  Children, Cancer, Race

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• Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.

  Neil Bonnett

  Jobs, Race, Car

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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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• There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

  John Updike

  Race, Car, Chance

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.

  Frances Trollope

  Believe, Knights, Race

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• I went to the store to buy a race car for my son's birthday, and the next thing I know I was working part time for the holidays. Then in February 2002, I started working on a plan to purchase the store.

  Bob Rice

  Holiday, Son, Race

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