Driving Quotes - Page 11

• The Hillary team is driving around in a van. Sometimes people get those gag bumper stickers put on their van. Hillary has one on her van, and it says, 'If this van's rockin', I'm deleting emails.'

  David Letterman

  Team, People, Email

  "David Letterman's political guests: The jokes were on them" by Diana D'Abruzzo, Slide 14, www.politico.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.

  David Letterman

  Iowa, People, Clinton

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• Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.

  Juan Pablo Montoya

  Snowboarding, Car, When Things Go Wrong

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• Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

  Andy Rooney

  Baseball, Gun, Thinking

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• It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Thinking, Compassion

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• I do enjoy wearing Japanese and Italian clothing. I also enjoy my blue jeans or tennis shorts and running shoes. I like driving a Porsche because it is an elegant machine and it is a very beautiful experience to drive it. It's magnificently made.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Running, Italian

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• The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

  John Hench

  Fighting, Artist, Color

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• In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Degrees, Arms, Should

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• Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!"

  Richard P. Feynman

  Men, Mcdonalds, Atheism

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• The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

  Harriet Morgan

  Funny, Crazy, Heart

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• A driving range is the place where golfers go to get all the good shots out of their system.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Range, Shots

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• I open the driving range and I close it. I thought you ought to know that I work hard. I like practising. I enjoy it. If I did not enjoy it I would not do it. What is the point of going back to the hotel, having a drink and talking a load of bull?

  Vijay Singh

  Hard Work, Golf, Talking

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• I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you're going into their home and it's just a natural part of life.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Beautiful, Ocean, Home

  "SOUL SURFER Interview With Bethany Hamilton!". Interview with Mark Clark, whatculture.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Restriction, Force

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Problem, Authority, Force

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Men, July

  Honore de Balzac (1901). “Cousin Betty”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

  Jennifer James

  Hurt, Names, People

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• I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Police, Motorcycle, Racing

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2015). “On My Own: The Years Since The White House”, p.135, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Boys, Pigs

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Riding, Truck

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• What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Children, Technology, Made Up Stories

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.138, Bantam

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• The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Men

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• By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Reading, Parent

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Purple, Parent

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• I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Passion, Writing, Desire

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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