Vehicle Quotes - Page 19

• Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Talking, Paris

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rocks, Anti Religion, Rock Music

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• A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic

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• An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

  Abraham Maslow

  God, Car, Stupidity

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• By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

  Max Beerbohm

  Writing, Emotional, Way

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.170, 1st World Publishing

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• In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Color, Design

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• Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Ideas, Fiction

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.

  Martin A. Siegel

  Emotional, Community, Resistance

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• I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

  Arne Duncan

  Technology, Thinking, Important

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• Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

  Jerry Doyle

  Poverty, One Thing

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

  Brad Garrett

  Opportunity, Giving, World

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• Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.

  Robert Blair

  Men, Giving, Mind

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• People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Inspiration, People

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Believe, Get Better

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

  Laurence Sterne

  Patience, Men, Ideas

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.215

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• Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.

  Al Gore

  Light, Law, Important

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Brother, Silly, Innovation

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• The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Mean, Emotional

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• Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Drinking, Law

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• Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the church recognizes that God will simultaneously employ and shatter. .. all doctrines, all ideologies. .. even within the church itself.

  Thomas G. Bandy

  Expression, Church, Doctrine

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• Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

  Lucinda Williams

  Sometimes, States, Feels

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• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  Fernand Leger

  Giving, Personality, Enlargement

  Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”

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• I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

  Andre Agassi

  People, Tennis, Want

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