Truck Quotes - Page 17

• I don't think I'm prepared to give away my technique to Great Britain. Are you crazy? All I can say is there was a ninja and a fire truck involved, and a great deal of coersion.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Crazy, Thinking, Fire

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  Theodore Stevens

  Internet, Dump, Tubes

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• Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Design, Guy, Wake Up

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 01, 2000.

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• First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.

  L. M. Boyd

  Firsts, International, Picks

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• No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

  Mike Nichols

  Beer, Agreement, Skills

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• If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, San Francisco, Austin

  "Why Rick Perry Is So Wrong About California And New York", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2014.

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• There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

  Marion Nestle

  Law, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Pap Machinery uses LubeMate products to keep our truck fleet moving so we can provide timely service to our customers. LubeMate has proven they manufacture quality products that meet our daily demands. The LubeMate team at Valley Industries has provided excellent service and their products are an exceptional value.

  Greg Roberts

  Team, Moving, Quality

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• I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Steve Jobs live from D8". Live blog, www.engadget.com. June 1, 2010.

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• When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!

  Chris Rock

  Matter, Way, Causes

  "Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger - London, New York, Johannesburg". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

  Leonard Read

  Regret, Men, Creative

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• My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That's what it's like, every day, when you're making a film. It's the magic.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Morning, Father, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation.... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Abuse, Hitting

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• [Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.

  Julia Sweeney

  Hitting, Needs, Bad Mood

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• I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it's gone. It's the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Winning, Talking

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• It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Moving, Wife, House

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• When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Dad, Father, Night

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• I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

  Michelle Singletary

  Names, Car, Firsts

  "Color of Money Live". live.washingtonpost.com. January 21, 2016.

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• That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Three, Tractors, Junkyard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

  Sara Paretsky

  Fire, People, Catholic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Perfect, Healthy, Lovely

  New York Times, February 2, 1986.

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• If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Safety, Needs

  "Of Permanent Value : The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, Vol. 2 (p. 1615), 2007.

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• The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

  Anne Lamott

  Flower, Ordinary, World

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Penguin

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• I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, President, Vices

  The New Republic, In response to Jeffrey Goldberg's question, October 8, 2007.

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• Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.

  Kirk Cameron

  Believe, Going Away, Alarms

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