Driving Quotes - Page 36

• You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

  Steve Harvey

  Race, Class, Piano

  "Steve At Ease". Interview with Kam Williams, www.insightnews.com. April 20, 2012.

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• For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

  Christopher Hitchens

  "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR: Christopher Hitchens / A gadfly with gusto". Interview with Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2005.

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• As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

  Janet Jackson

  Morning, Children, School

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• The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.

  Naveen Jain

  Sports, Football, Art

  "Keeping Football Exciting While Reducing the Threat of Traumatic Head Injuries" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.

  Victoria Justice

  Thinking, Giving, Wake Up

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• Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

  Michio Kaku

  Global Warming, Controversial, Controversy

  "Monster snowstorms still spell global warming" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

  Dean Kamen

  People, Problem, Resources

  "Inventor Dean Kamen Says Healthcare Debate 'Backward Looking'". Interview with Jim Meigs, Jerry Beilinson, www.popularmechanics.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

  Evel Knievel

  Birthday, Thinking, Law

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• I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Waiting, Different, Records

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• Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

  Hugh Laurie

  Inspirational, Morning, Thinking

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, Moving, Two

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• I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

  Kellan Lutz

  Art, Brother, Kids

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• The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Media, Creative

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• People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

  Demetri Martin

  Im Sorry, Squirrels, People

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

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• I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

  Joyce Meyer

  Praying, I Pray

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• Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

  Wentworth Miller

  Night, Car, Meals

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• No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

  Moby

  Manhattan, Facts, Folks

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• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  Cory Monteith

  Teacher, Years, Class

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

  Elon Musk

  Self, Safety, Car

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

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• I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Play, Balls

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• There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Powerful, Unique, Ferrari

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• I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Fun, Thinking, Years

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• I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

  Apolo Ohno

  Winter, Ice, Two

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• On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Kentucky, California, Southern

  "Timothy Olyphant: 'Justified' In Laying Down The Law". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 28, 2011.

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