Quotes about driving

Ron White -

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

Johnny Van Zant -

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.

Heather Brooke -

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

Henrik Fisker -

The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this.

David Harewood -

I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.

Tommy Lasorda -

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Susanna Kearsley -

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.

Malik Bendjelloul -

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

Mikhail Gorbachev -

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Manal Al-Sharif - Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant being confronted with every possible kind ofobstacle and discrimination. It meant being told that if you want to race with men, you’d have to do it with your hands and legs cut off. I started to wish I had been born somewhere—anywhere—else.

Manal Al-Sharif - Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you ashamed of what you did?”“Is driving a car something shameful?” I answered back.

Ahmed Mostafa -

There's something infinitely fascinating or fatal about a woman behind the wheel.

Charles Bukowski - Absence of the Hero

The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.

A.O. Storm - An A-Hole Goes To Work

Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE

Diana Wynne Jones - Archer's Goon

Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Erol Ozan -

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

S. Jane Sloat - In the Voice of a Minor Saint

God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window,more human than kerosene,more unctuous, more manly.

Moe Cidaly -

No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red light.

Kamand Kojouri -

My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.

Tommy Cooper -

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.

Tad Williams - The Dirty Streets of Heaven

I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they seem to be much more pragmatic about the whole thing than we are. For most males, driving is an extension of their masculinity; they have little fantasy scenarios going all the time - races, chases, and dramatic combat with other drivers. Females, on the other hand, generally seem to view driving as something you do to get somewhere. I know, crazy.

Hilary McKay - Saffy's Angel

I can only drive slowly.""That's all right.""And I can only do left turns."Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!

Dan Rather -

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Jeremy Clarkson -

No really. If you only have seven years left, that means the Reaper will be dropping round for tea and buns in about 61,000 hours from now. You therefore shouldn’t be wasting time by pootling to the garden centre at walking pace. So come on, grandad. The clock’s ticking. Pedal to the metal. Or you’ll be in your flowerbed before the plants you bought.

Steven Magee -

Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.

Sunday Adelaja -

The people of God are the driving force of every nation

Israelmore Ayivor -

Your driver is on the steer, driving you and you can feel free to doze in the car; this is trust built on competence. Competence is to ensure that your actions put people's hearts at ease when things are in your hands.

Nikhil Rao and Katherine Reiter -

Life is only a fast lane if you get into a lane and drive fast.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto - Route 20

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

Kathleen Flinn - and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

Living is like driving," my grandmother used to say. "You have to pick a lane." Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and my future.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.

Israelmore Ayivor -

If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

There were some low moments out there on the road tonight—abandonment and what’s the point?—but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurtis Blow and disco synthesizers made me feel like I could drive all night.

C.B. Cook - Twinepathy

I’d prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn’t start singing.

Dylan Perry - Gods Just Want To Have Fun

Staying relaxed was helping him cope with the drug induced juddering vision that could be best described as being like a Hitchcockian visual effect operated by a hyperactive squirrel that shook the whole universe closer and farther away. If you went with it, it was quite pleasant, as long as you didn't introduce any lateral movement like turning your head or the car. This caused the universe to try and slide away from underneath you. The other side effect was the constant feeling you ought to tr

Criss Jami - Killosophy

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Ava - You Are Safe Here.

i took a night drive.i needed to get away.i needed to knowit's okay to goand have no destination,where time moves slowor doesn't exist.that life can be like this,aimless wandering,just breathing,living,driving forever underneath the stars.

Benedict Cumberbatch -

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

John Green - Looking for Alaska

You can't just make me different and then leave

Benedict Cumberbatch -

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!

Jim Blasingame - The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance

If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.

Israelmore Ayivor -

You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well.

Preston Shay - Mad Trip: On the Road of the Longest Two-Week Family Road Trip in History

Make sure you control the radio on a long road trip. You don't want to listen to some old-fashioned music the whole time.

Michael Ondaatje - Handwriting

Aliganaya - 'the embraceduring an intoxicated walk'or 'sudden arousalwhile driving over speed bumps

S.M. Hulse - Black River

So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn't. All that space, waiting.

Maggie Stiefvater - The Dream Thieves

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

Kodi Smit-McPhee -

I really like driving cars. I love car games.

Captain Beefheart -

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

Jeff Gordon -

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

Carroll Shelby -

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

Gary Cole -

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

Justin Kurzel -

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

David J. C. MacKay -

The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.

Paul Watson -

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Will Ferrell -

I hate when someone drives my car and resets all the radio presets. I don't understand it. If I was ever driving someone's car, I would never touch the things that were set.

Virat Kohli -

I love driving my car on any highway.

Guy Fieri -

There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable.

Katherine Dunn -

I'm like every waitress in every diner I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

Asif Kapadia -

There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology.

David Attenborough -

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

Apolo Ohno -

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.

Cory Lidle -

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

Steven Wright -

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

Ayrton Senna -

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Glenn Danzig -

It's annoying when someone's in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you're like, 'Okay, today,' and someone else is on the side of you, so you can't pass them, and when you finally do pass them and they are texting, the laser cannons just come out and disintegrate that car.

Richard Murdoch -

I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.

Jimmie Johnson -

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.

Nick Cannon -

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

Terry Savage -

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

Tom Peters -

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Bill Gates -

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Victoria Justice -

I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.

Aaron Paul -

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

Ariana Grande -

Music is really driving my whole life.

Anne Rice -

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Donna Brazile -

The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn't really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that's putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.

David Chang -

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

Kevin O'Leary -

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.

Noam Chomsky -

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Henry Cloud -

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.

Chris Christie -

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

David Trimble -

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

Morgan Freeman -

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

Mark Batterson -

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

Barack Obama -

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

Tom Vanderbilt - Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Chase Brooks -

People who could easily be mistaken as preteens just shouldn’t even try to pull off the look-at-me-I’m-so-serious-and-mysterious-and-sexy look. Especially while driving because, please, you look like you are twelve and a half and driving with a serious look. Most kids who get the opportunity to drive illegally are smiling so big that they look dyslexic and about to piss their pants with excitement because they are in operation of a vehicle that isn’t manufactured by PlayStation.

Aimee Bender - The Color Master: Stories

The best way I can think to describe it, she said, ' is the way, when you're driving on the freeway at night how everyone can see the moon in their window. Every car on the road. Every car feels the moon is following that car, even in the other direction, right? Everyone in that entire hemisphere can see the moon and think it is there for them, is following where they go.

Dmitry Dyatlov -

if you are always drinking, you should probably never drive

Ava Dellaira - Love Letters to the Dead

All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my hand out the window, and then I put my head out. I felt my hair blow behind me and the air rush into me, and I forgot for a moment to worry about how I was supposed to be. Because I was perfect right then. Everything was. And Sky was a perfect driver. Not scary. Just steady. And fast. I wanted the music to last forever.

Jenny Lawson - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, "Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT!

Wendy Mass - Leap Day

No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone's trying out for the same parts, I just had a very bizarre conversation with the school secretary, Megan may be throwing up her cucumber sandwiches, I've broken five of the seven deadly sins in as many hours, a demon may be inside a girl in my world religions class, Grant Brawner called me by name, my license photo looks like a dead fish, I have to drive my friends all over town in tw

John Irving - Last Night in Twisted River

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

Steven Magee -

The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.

A.E. Via -

Syn tightened his seat belt as God drove like a damn lunatic through the city. He was now on the interstate doing over a hundred miles an hour.“If the person’s already dead, what’s the damn rush, Cash?” Day grumbled, obviously not liking God’s driving either.God ignored his passengers and swerved over four lanes, cutting off an eighteen-wheeler and just missing the barrier as he took the exit ramp at seventy.“Got a real heavy foot there, don’t you Lieutenant?” Syn gritted through clenched teeth.

Kevin Hearne - Trapped

When you're driving, you don't focus on everything at once, but you have peripheral awareness of it, right? You focus on what you need to at any given moment, whether it's the car in front of you, the jackass in the lifted truck passing you, or the sirens behind you, whatever. Everything exists, everything is there, but you don't have to see it all at once. Does that help? You don't have to see all the bindings you're seeing right now. Just focus on the outlines of the physical stuff you saw bef

Colin Powell -

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.