Don Garlits Quotes

#1. While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.

Paul Hawken

#2. Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

Sofia Vergara

#3. Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.

Deane Juhan

#4. Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!

Don Garlits

#5. Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

David Bowie

#6. ... there was a pattern to how things were done, rules we followed. Not following meant not knowing what might happen.

Gin Phillips

#7. Every time the light turns green, stay in the thick of competition.

Don Garlits

#8. It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

Alice Waters

#9. Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent!

Don Garlits

#10. It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.

Sheila E.