Drivers Quotes - Page 26

• With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Acting, Moments

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• 'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

  Jodie Foster

  Chickens, Taxi, Weirdo

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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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• Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

  Bob Beauprez

  Meaningful, Cutting, Growth

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• You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  I Like You, Hate, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.46, Atlântico Press

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• I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knitting, Rude, Opera

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• If anyone other than you had me fly halfway around the world just to keep me waiting while you were obviously lingering in bed, I’d have my driver run them over. Twice.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Running, Waiting, Bed

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• Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

  Brad Warner

  Motor Vehicles, Car, Drug

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• We need a ride. We're stranded." "We still have two legs, leftie and rightie. Mine are in the mood for exercise. They feel like a nice long walk--ARE YOU CRAZY?" she shrieked. I was standing with the tip of the beach umbrella aimed at the driver's-side window. "What?" I said. "We have to get in.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Beach, Crazy, Nice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Emotional, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

  Fiona Apple

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 4, 2005.

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• On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Winter, Two, Should Have

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• well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

  Charles Bukowski

  Sky, Pimp, Cab Drivers

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• Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Grandfather, Young, Courses

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• I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.

  Rick Riordan

  Morning, Khufu, Houston

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.292, Penguin UK

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• What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Drinking, Wine

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1457, Google Publishing

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• Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

  Randy Pausch

  Running, Mean, People

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

  Garth Stein

  Memories, Order, Racing

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

  Eric Kripke

  Shotguns, Picks

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• Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

  William Dalrymple

  Cities, Six, Said

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• The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate.

  Grant Morrison

  Christian, Mother, Stars

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• I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

  Cate Tiernan

  Should Have, Rivers, Challenges

  Cate Tiernan (2011). “Immortal Beloved (Book One): Immortal Beloved: Book One”, p.313, Hachette UK

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• You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

  Ayrton Senna

  Winning, Race, Design

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• Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

  Bob Goff

  Whimsy, Matter, Way

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.

  Ridley Pearson

  Two, Car, Wheels

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