Quotes About Driving

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

Steven Wright

#2. What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.

Craig T. Nelson

#3. I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

John Hench

#4. For decades, many therapists have been attempting to help abusive men change by guiding them in identifying and expressing feelings. Alas, this well-meaning but misguided approach actually feeds the abuser's selfish focus on himself, which is an important force driving his abusiveness.

Lundy Bancroft

#5. When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

Jane Smiley

#6. The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

Robert Baden-Powell

#7. When you're engaged in what you love to do, it's like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.

T. Harv Eker

#8. Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.

Brooke Valentine

#9. However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

Basmah Bint Saud

#11. Sergeant Hicks seemed to be laid out in squares as though he were constructed out of cinder blocks. There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. He walked as if each step he took was driving a hated enemy toward a precipice.

Pat Conroy

#12. 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

#13. We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.

Lysa TerKeurst

#14. Who's driving this motorcycle and who's in the bloody sidecar? I don't ride in the sidecar. I don't even own a pussy bike with a sidecar.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. Now, personally, I'd have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we're the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn't have one.

Ben Aaronovitch

#16. There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

Paul Watson

#17. Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#18. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can't remember when a block of it didn't rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can't be repaired. What, if lost can't be replaced.
I love my burdens.

Dennis Lehane

#19. Mama
Mama
I want so many things ... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy ...

Lorraine Hansberry

#20. The way I hold the club, I've got my hand way over, like I'm driving a motorcycle. My Kawasaki grip.

Pete Sampras

#21. It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

James Wolcott

#23. It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

Naomi Weisstein

#24. Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Peter Drucker

#25. In the past I've been hard on the vegans. I've called them Prius-driving fascists, but now I am one of them. I have been turned to the dark side.

Craig Ferguson

#26. There is no denying that Eros was now in love.He had fallen in love with his wife, Helen, more than 15 years ago, & that was why he married her.He had now fallen in love again with his new Secretary.And that was what was now driving him bonkers.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

#27. It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.

Alex Steffen

#28. The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#29. Ah, here's my SUV." He made sure her dress was tucked into the car before shutting her door. "I'll wait for you just down the road and then you can follow me home. Oh, and Jack? This is a one night only invitation. If you're not okay with that keep on driving.

Mary J. Williams

#30. Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile ...

Elizabeth Bowen

#31. There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Aaron Johnson

#32. I wanted to be a truck driver. I love driving long distances!!!

Karen Mason

#33. I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

Dan Hill

#34. Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Marc Andreessen

#35. Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009]

Cormac McCarthy

#36. He delivered the mail, ran our modest recycling program, and maintained our handful of public buildings. He also occasionally fell asleep while driving a snowplough, but he was such a cheerful guy it was hard to stay pissed at him. Besides every village needs an idiot.

Molly Harper

#37. One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

Ed Miliband

#38. Maddy: "Um ... William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

Janet Chapman

#39. God, Hannah. I've been thinking about fucking you. It's like there's something wrong with me. I can't stop thinking about it. I want my body against yours, my cock inside of you. It's driving me wild. Does that frighten you?

M. Pierce

#40. Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.

Henry Rollins

#41. I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'

Josh Fox

#42. Do you ever sing in the car?"
"Generally not. But I am driving a police car."
"I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic."
"You can talk for a long time about nothing."
"I certainly can, you charming man!

Maureen Johnson

#43. I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.

Heather Burns

#44. 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

#45. 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.

Kathleen Flinn

#46. The crime that is latent in us we must inflict on ourselves," I say. I nod and nod, driving the message home. "Not on others," I say.

J.M. Coetzee

#47. We had a rough month. If no one was around trying to kill us we might as well spend the rest of our lives driving each other insane. It would pass the time.

Suenammi Richards

#48. Okay, consider this. Say you're going to go on a long journey with someone by car. And the two of you will take turns driving. Which type of person would you choose? One who's a good driver, but inattentive, or an attentive person who's not such a good driver?

Haruki Murakami

#49. I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was either to kidnap me or for my amusement.

Nat Wolff

#51. Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

Richard Hammond

#52. I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

Alicia Sacramone

#53. I take the subway because I don't like having someone else driving. It's hard for me to be in a cab, because the traffic makes me feel insane. On the subway you're getting there faster and it's easier.

Chloe Sevigny

#54. People feel very emotional about cars, and I don't want them to feel bad about driving a fast car.

Henrik Fisker

#55. I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

Paul Weller

#56. You're fucking driving me insane," he growls into my neck. No. He was insane before me. However, I'll wait a bit to make that case.

Jewel E. Ann

#57. Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

Jerry Della Femina

#58. The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

Charles Dickens

#59. I think one should forgive and remember ... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

Faith Baldwin

#60. Oh, don't you worry about that, Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward.

Joseph Heller

#61. 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.

Terry Savage

#62. Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

Ian Bremmer

#63. No driving, no sleeping. Live it up like it's the weekend, when the DJ play the right song gonna drink, gonna party all night long

Wiz Khalifa

#64. My mind was not driving the car. If you doubt me, try being a twelve-year-old boy with your biggest sexual fantasy punning you against a wall mostly naked in a pool, and then tell me I'm lying

Eli Easton

#65. I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.

David Coulthard

#66. Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.

Bill Rodgers

#67. Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

Patrick Duffy

#68. The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

Peter Jacobsen

#69. She dreamed of driving off bridges: into a lake beneath some twisting highway of her youth, into the reservoir on the country road to home, into the San Francisco Bay.

Shannon Celebi

#70. 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.

Asif Kapadia

#71. Driving home I see the playground but it's all wrong, the swings are on the opposite side. "Oh, Jack, that's a different one," says Grandma. There's playgrounds in every town." Lots of the world seems to be a repeat.

Emma Donoghue

#72. While driving and talking on a cell phone, how much of your world do you miss? The research findings suggest you could have your eyes wide open, but fail to see the car, the bike, or the deer about to cross your path.

David McRaney

#73. Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

Alan Cohen

#74. Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is why opera is something I've come late to, I'd say.

Lauren Worsham

#75. The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.

Arnold Palmer

#76. You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we're going, we'd think it was too far.

Iyanla Vanzant

#77. We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.

Lesley Gore

#78. If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.

Brody Jenner

#79. Claudia. Was. Driving. Luis. Bat shit.

Thea Harrison

#80. The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success.

Debasish Mridha

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Joe Hill

#82. To resolve the dissonance between "I love this person" and "This person is doing some things that are driving me crazy" will enhance their love story or destroy it.

Carol Tavris

#83. Women are becoming the driving force behind geek culture, and we shouldn't be relegated to the sidelines.

Sam Maggs

#84. There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

Jesse Ventura

#85. When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'

Henry Rollins

#86. I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'

Gregory Peck

#87. Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

Andrew Weil

#88. No matter what restraints you put on me, it won't stop me from taking what I want, from driving deep and hard, stroking you with my cock until you disintegrate around me.

Pepper Winters

#89. Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

Mary McCarthy

#90. Her eyes. The Jinni watched the girl sprint excitedly back the way she'd come, driving her goats before her. He smiled, and wondered what a girl such as she might dream about.

Helene Wecker

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

Jacques Delors

#92. Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But because of Jesus there is hope...Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father.

Eric Mason

#93. I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.

Kim Dotcom

#94. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

#95. Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

Warren Buffett

#96. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

George Bernard Shaw

#97. There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass by the house where Frank Zappa was living and I'd just see people out on the porch playing guitars.

June Millington

#98. I love driving the cool cars, but there is nothing like driving a pickup truck.

Dwayne Johnson

#99. I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

Nelson Piquet

#100. Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

Deepak Chopra