Truck Quotes - Page 9

• Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck - which I do - and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window.

  Billy Carter

  Beer, Redneck, Boys

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• I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

  Delta Burke

  Heart, Fire, Special

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Lunch, Waiting

  Letter to Margaret Anderson, 1941.

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• David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

  Hedi Slimane

  Guy, Towns, Bowie

  "Hedi Slimane: 'Maybe I have to start designing again'". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Wrecks, Sometimes, Payment

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• It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in
  the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least
  difference. In other words, if they were hit by a truck, the same
  discovery would be made by somebody else about 10 minutes later.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Discovery, Differences, Would Be

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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• When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Principles, Investing

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.231, John Wiley & Sons

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• I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.

  Chris Rock

  Brother, Thinking, Love Of My Life

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

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• It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of prayer. I would have thought a truck of food. A day of prayer. Now, maybe I'm mistaken here and, again, I'm not a scientific expert, but isn't a hurricane officially an act of God? Isn't a day of prayer kind of redundant? Hasn't God already made up his mind on that sort of thing? So we do a day of prayer. The President has his stupid day of prayer. Three days later, Hurricane Rita hits. Somebody must have said something... something like, is that all you got?

  Jon Stewart

  Prayer, Stupid, New Orleans

  Stand-up performance at Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005.

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• In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Captains, Transportation

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• There's been so much talk in the news lately about illegal aliens in the workplace. When was the last time an illegal alien stole your job? Oh yeah, that dream job of the Chinese Delivery man pedaling up Broadway delivering Chinese food for 40 cents an hour, or on the back of a landscaping truck with 15 others.

  Greg Giraldo

  Dream, Jobs, Men

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• You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, House, Doe

  Jeff Foxworthy (2005). “Redneck Extreme Mobile Home Makeover: Or A Redneck Look at Fixing Up and Decorating Your House Without Loss of Limbs”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You might be a redneck if getting a package from your post office requires a full tank of gas in the truck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Office, Tanks

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• You might be a redneck if your 'huntin dog' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Redneck, Cost

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• My wife is like, You finally get your own TV show, you can have any kind of car you want and you get a darned truck. But my brother and I have the same kind of truck now.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Brother, Tv Shows, Wife

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• America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

  D. H. Lawrence

  America, People, Society

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• You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Airplane, Redneck, Flying

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• The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Army, Government

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• The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

  Minor White

  Fall, Creating, Mind

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• I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.

  Norm MacDonald

  Lazy, Tvs, Necks

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• Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!

  Mark Mason

  Tired, Cutting, Night

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sin, Wealth, Welfare

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.115, Chronicle Books

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• I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter, fine. If not, I'm just as happy. Many times I am given shelter by total strangers. When hospitality is not available there are always bus depots, railroad stations and all night truck stops.... When no shelter is available to me, I sleep in the fields or by the side of the road with God to guard me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Sleep, Night, Sides

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