The Drive Quotes

#1. I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

Jim Butcher

#2. I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

Bernie Mac

#3. I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

James Burrows

#4. I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.

Chaz Bundick

#5. The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

James C. Collins

#6. I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

Brad Pitt

#7. Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.

Jake Busey

#9. Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

Joe Bob Briggs

#10. A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.

Nora Roberts

#11. Word: I'm not saying the races don't have a common human bond. I'm just saying that bond isn't about compassion and equality and tolerance. What we all share together is the drive to get what's ours and keep it for as long as we can.

Snoop Dogg

#12. They made their way down the drive in the gathering twilight. The air was full of the smells of warm grass, lake water, and wood smoke from Hagrid's cabin. It was difficult to believe that they were heading for anything dangerous or frightening. p. 553

J.K. Rowling

#13. Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in.

Dennis Miller

#14. From the driver's side, one of Echo's jean-clad legs dangled.
"I've got a hard-on just looking at her, man," said Isaiah as we strolled up the drive.
"You're ate up," I replied, hoping he meant the car, not Echo. I'd hate to throw down with someone I considered family.

Katie McGarry

#15. Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long; there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!

Dorothea Benton Frank

#17. Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#18. With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

Alanis Morissette

#19. ~ Inspiration comes from the life lessons we view in everyday life. Everyone has the ability to be an
inspiration.
~ Motivation is the drive to be more than ordinary.
Motivate your dreams to become reality.
~If your dreams are never realized, they will only exist as fantasy.

D'Juana L. Manuel-Smith

#20. It wasn't until the drive home, while Ian gazed out the passenger window, that I remembered the old woman had described us as two young people in love. Was this what it was like to be in love? To know that you had something precious and live in constant terror it'd be taken away?

Megan Erickson

#21. Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

Peter Tork

#22. Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers.

Daphne Du Maurier

#23. The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrifices my Mom made for me.

Forrest Curran

#24. On the drive up here, I saw a goose," he says. "A Canada goose. Fred told me they shit something horrible. They migrate between the north and the south, don't they? Like seniors.

Brian Francis

#25. The drive to make everything lightweight is depriving us of the the deep reassurance of heft.

Michael Foley

#26. The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

Tony Blair

#27. I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

Blythe Danner

#28. The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#29. As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm'd and oh, my'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine that told them how to attract women and, if so, did it ever tell them to put the girls' interests first?

Jennifer Donnelly

#30. The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Aimee Mullins

#31. All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.

Jenny McCarthy

#32. It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.

John Steinbeck

#33. Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

Orville Redenbacher

#34. As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

John Gokongwei

#35. Know what one of the guys at the drive-through Starbucks has on his forearm?" Bernadette said. "A paper clip! It used to be so daring to get a tattoo. And now people are tattooing office supplies on their bodies.

Maria Semple

#36. The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.

Chuck Klosterman

#37. Called Evan Malone at the number Epstein had given me and got his wife, and made an appointment to come up to his place on Bow Lake to talk with him. On the drive up Route 93, I called Epstein on the cell phone.

Robert B. Parker

#38. Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?

Christina Engela

#39. If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.

Kaye Dacus

#40. The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.

Tim S. Grover

#41. When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Forest Whitaker

#42. The drive ... is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope ...

Larry McDonald

#43. I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

Bridget Moynahan

#44. What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#45. The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

Erich Fromm

#46. I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet ... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.

Jim Stynes

#47. If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

Jack Dunphy

#48. Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Michael Bloomberg

#49. I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

Hugh Jackman

#50. FOR MOST OF MY LIFE I couldn't have found Idaho on a map. I had no picture of the place in my mind, nothing like a California beach or a Texas oil field. Potato trees, is what I thought on the drive out. Rows

Shawn Vestal

#51. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#52. The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You're generation lacks the drive.

Tyne O'Connell

#53. I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

John Lee Hooker

#54. There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

Jimmy Page

#55. 128We want both, to burn it down and be no one and to be recognized by the dog on the daily walk up the drive from work and we get both but never exactly when and how we imagined it.

Rebecca Solnit

#56. If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

Rita Coolidge

#57. Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

Robert Heilbroner

#58. Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

Marcus Samuelsson

#59. When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's. It's the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the 'Drive it? Hug it?' phase. I run it on biodiesel.

Woody Harrelson

#60. Animal in man is the drive to concentrate on the satisfaction of needs; spiritual in man is the will to serve higher ends, and in serving ends he transcends his needs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#61. We don't mess around with organized conspiracies in this country; we tie our seat-belts and sit back to enjoy the drive.

Andy Paula

#62. Little Sally is beheading daisies on the drive ... couldn't be more eloquent if she could speak ...

Lauren Groff

#63. The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water ... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

Martin Seligman

#64. The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

Salma Hayek

#65. I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.

George Karl

#66. Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way.

Paul Buchheit

#67. The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

John Frusciante

#68. From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.

Bill Frist

#69. I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

Danny Brown

#70. [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has been an accompanying oversensitivity that, in practice, keeps us atomized and more likely to be manipulated and have our rights impinged upon.

Darren O'Donnell

#71. There's a lot of things that you can do where you don't have to have a lot of money. Going to the drive-in, which cost a dollar, and we would make food to take with us to the drive-in. That was a big thrill.

Georgia Holt

#72. You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man," she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn't said "abusive," I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you.

Debby Bull

#73. there's a single phrase to describe Sister Simone, it is "compassionate conviction." With bravery, with courage, with optimism, she is focused on the common good. She is a champion for the cause of peace and justice. She has the will and the drive to do right.

Simone Campbell

#74. You call for a constitutional amendment banning abortion? We call for federally-funded, partial-birth abortions at the drive-through at McDonald's.

Bill Maher

#75. The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

Richard Gere

#76. On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something.

Sara Quin

#77. People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

Clayton Christensen

#78. Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

Walter Brueggemann

#79. As I princessed in the tower, he knight-in-shining-armoured up the drive.

John Harding

#80. In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents' life had purpose.

Marco Rubio

#81. The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

Edwin Land

#82. I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

Penelope Wilton

#83. The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#84. The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#85. For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts....

David T. Hardy

#86. I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.

Harbhajan Singh

#87. The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#88. I held it together for the rest of the drive home but as soon as Kelsey dropped me off I flopped face down on the couch and sobbed like a reality TV star on confessional day.

Molly Harper

#89. A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#90. The nearest one came to a tumble dryer was if the laundry basket was dropped on the way to the washing-line and then the whole lot went tumbling down the drive.

Ann Patras

#91. The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

Pete Docter

#92. Dating is horrible, it's awful. I don't get it. It's like you're standing there: 'Hi. Do you want to have sex and later wish you hadn't?' It's horrible. And it's awkward at 42 because I don't have the body or the drive. I just sit in the car and hope somebody gets in.

Louis C.K.

#93. Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Eric Burns

#94. I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.

Sara Genn

#95. On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

Nicholas Sparks

#96. I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

David Hockney

#97. But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

John Boehner

#98. The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

Arthur Henderson

#99. Though the rain had pitter-pattered, then pelted the carriages during the drive had stopped, the ground was wet and boggy, sucking at feet as though hoping to keep anyone from ever leaving the estate.

Jessica Lawson

#100. There is also the fact that, unlike China, India is a democracy. Thus, Mumbai's robust activism functions as a brake on the drive to impose from above the fantasy of a global city.

Gyan Prakash