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Driving Quotes

"I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's."

Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Celebrity

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"Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina."

Bob Ney, American Politician

Driving, Summer

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"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

Richard Donner, American Director

Driving, Lying, Painting

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"With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist."

David Halberstam, American Journalist

Driving, Marketing, Television, Today

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

"Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher."

Bobby Jindal, American Politician

Driving, Help, Nations, Oil

"Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar."

James Payn, English Novelist

Driving, Literature

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

Tim Vine, British Comedian

"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, American Musician

Driving, states, Study, Waiting

"Writing has never been a driving force within me."

Jeffrey Combs, American Actor

Driving, Force, Writing

"I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window."

Coolio, American Musician

Driving, Smoking, Wrong

"Mind your driving."

L. M. Heroux, American Author

"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"

Terry Goodkind, American Writer

Driving, Fiction, Sound

"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Driving, Hollywood

"It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize."

Eric Stoltz, American Actor

Driving, Murder

"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."

Jean Baudrillard, French Sociologist

"I quit driving, I'm not retired."

Richard Petty, American Athlete

"It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill."

John Gunther, American Journalist

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

George Carlin, American Comedian

"Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot."

Anthony Michael Hall, American Actor

Driving, Example

"You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either."

Dale Earnhardt, American Celebrity

"Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway."

Meg Tilly, American Actress

"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, American Actor

Driving, Listening, Loneliness, Lonely

"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."

Jacques Delors, French Economist

Driving, Europe, Force, Liberal

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

E. L. Doctorow, American Author

Driving, Night, Writing

"I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done."

Thierry Henry, French Athlete

"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."

James Lipton, American Educator

Driving, Talking

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

Tommy Cooper, British Comedian

"The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism."

Sonny Perdue, American Politician

"When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older."

Larry Dixon, American Politician

Driving, Kids, Now, Years

"I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane."

Jeri Ryan, American Actress

Driving, End, Sense, Talk

"Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house."

Benjamin Britten, English Composer

Driving, Road, Windows

"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, Italian Astronaut

"I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage."

Todd Barry, American Comedian

Driving, Night, Trying

"I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that."

Ray Davies, English Musician

Driving, Living

"When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

Driving, Poor, School

"My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball."

Tracy Austin, American Athlete

Driving, Force, Mind

"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."

Charles Kuralt, American Journalist

Driving, Labor, Succeed

"This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow."

Aaron Allston, American Novelist

"I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road."

Jay London, American Comedian

Driving, Lonely, Road

"My driving force is spirituality."

Debra Wilson, American Comedian

Driving, Force, Spirituality

"I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge."

Don Sherwood, American Politician

Driving, Old, Washington, Years

"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."

Anthony Doerr, American Writer

Driving, First, Job, Self

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