Driving Quotes - Page 37

• When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.

  Clive Owen

  Wind, Idiot, Fronts

  "Clive Owen Interview - SHOOT 'EM UP". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 6, 2007.

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• I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  "Find Out What Influences Katy Perry's Cute Style!". Interview with Seventeen magazine, www.seventeen.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

  Liz Phair

  Character, Views, Challenges

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• I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Harry Potter Grows Up: An Interview With Daniel Radcliffe". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

  Dan Rather

  Wall, Spring, Japan

  "I’ve Discovered Facebook" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

  Nicole Richie

  Responsibility, Drunk, Apologizing

  "Madden, Pregnancy Made Richie Change Her Ways". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

  Kid Rock

  Wake Up, Nightmare, Prius

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• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Block, Home, School

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2002.

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• I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

  Portia de Rossi

  Acting, Downtown, Process

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

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• This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beach, Sound, Gone

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• There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sunday, Santa Barbara, Color

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• I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Four, Said

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• The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Differences, Phones, Cells

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• With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Opportunity, Class

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• As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Lonely, Loneliness, Cities

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

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• Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

  Maria Sharapova

  Court, Planes, Music Is

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• There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Introducing, Method

  "Driving: a parent's nightmare" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Home, Parent

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  David Soul

  Doors, Personality, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  Barbra Streisand

  Home, People, Sick

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• If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

  James Surowiecki

  Car, Guarantees, Computer

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• On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Writing, Play

  "Face Time". www.newyorker.com. March 18, 2013.

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• I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

  Audrey Tautou

  Summer, Hate, Light

  "Here's looking at you, kid" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2001.

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• We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Shining, Energy

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Thinking, Curiosity, Fame

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