Drivers Quotes - Page 38

• Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

  Michael Bond

  Boys, Smell, Special

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• It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

  Morton Gould

  Should Have, Special, Taste

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• You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

  Jimmy Breslin

  Baseball, Morning, Jobs

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• The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Keys, Feet, Important

  "Peter Orszag and Sen. Judd Gregg on 'FNS'". FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2009.

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• Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.

  Woody Allen

  Needs, Enthusiasm, Engines

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• Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

  Elliott Abrams

  Mean, Winter, Years

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• Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

  Colin McRae

  Race, Car, Racing

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• Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

  David Nicholls

  Space, Lenses, Fifty

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mules, Happened, Died

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.74, Modern Library

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• To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.

  Herman Melville

  Self, Feelings, Jeering

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2530, Delphi Classics

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• Quite frankly, Kimi Raikkonen is the fastest driver in the world

  Stirling Moss

  World

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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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• There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.

  Eric Holder

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  "Eric Holder: U.S. Still 'Afraid' of Race". ABC News interview, abcnews.go.com. July 13, 2014.

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• It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Thinking, Nascar Racing

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

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• I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

  Emily Procter

  Taken, Self, Blonde

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• It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

  Radhanath Swami

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.

  P. C. Cast

  Taken, Waiting, Tests

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• Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Thinking, Voice

  Charlaine Harris (2006). “Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.186, Penguin

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• What's with the disco lights?" Michael said, rolling down the window between the driver's compartment and the back. Eve turned around, and her face brightened. "You like it? I thought it looked really cool. I saw it in a movie, you know, in a limo." "It's cool," Michael said, and smiled at her. She smiled back. "Can't wait to lie here and watch it with you." Claire said, "You don't have to wait; it's working now. Look--Oh. Never mind." She blushed, feeling stupid that she hadn't gotten that one in the first second. Eve winked at her.

  Rachel Caine

  Lying, Stupid, Light

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.156, Allison & Busby

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• No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton

  Bryan Davis

  Alive, Majesty, Assuming

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• TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.

  Connie Willis

  Girl, War, Airplane

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• You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

  Richelle Mead

  Keys, Eyebrows, Pockets

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• My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me." ... She couldn't hear him laugh, but she felt his body shake. "She wouldn't say that if she knew me," he called back to her confidently. "I'm an excellent driver." -Clary & Jace, pg.289-

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Boys, Laughing

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• You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sorry, Lying, Mean

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.109, e-artnow

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• I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys Iʹd swiped when weʹd come back inside. ʺThe driver,ʺ I said. I DIDNʹT GET TO DRIVE.

  Richelle Mead

  Keys, Pockets, Said

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