Driver Quotes
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I am now here in Congress... I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!
— Davy Crockett, letter (28 January 1834), reported in A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834), p. 113, final paragraph.
Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.
Richard Brautigan— "30 Cents, Two Transfers, Love"
Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?
Roger McGough— 1982 'Waving At Trains'.
I'm hitting the driver so good,Igotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.
Lee Buck Trevino— Attributed.
He's a very, very talented driver. It's nice to have drivers like this boy Alonso. He's got a Formula 1 drive for next year so I'm really pleased for him.
fernando alonso— Kart legend Mike Wilson, 2000 [6]
As for me, I'm stuck in a loveless relationship with myself, the backseat driver who can't stop tutting and nagging. There's no escape from me's relentless criticism. Me even knows what I'm thinking, and routinely has a pop at Me for that. "You're worrying about your obsessive degree of self-criticism again," whines Me. "How pathetically solipsistic." And then it complains about its own bleating tone of voice and starts petulantly kicking the back of the seat, asking if we're there yet.
charlie brooker— The Guardian 16 August 2010 [3]
A New York City taxi driver asked him where to go; Karajan replied "No matter - I am in demand everywhere."
herbert von karajan— Apocryphal; see New York Times [1]
At one point the driver said, "For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there." Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
jack kerouac— Part Three, Ch. 5
Well, I flung the window open an' I shouted, "Yes, that's right Millandra – I'm goin' to Greece for the sex; sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea, an’ sex for supper." Well, she just ignored me but this little cab driver leans out an' pipes up, "That sounds like a marvellous diet, love." "It is," I shouted back, "have y' never heard of it? It's called the 'F' Plan."
willy russell— Shirley Valentine, said by Shirley (1986, page 40)
Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
Michael Schumacher— Schumacher (2006) cited in: "No pressure to quit insists Schumacher" Daily Mail UK, 13 September 2006
"I think Gilles was the perfect racing driver ... He had the best talent of all of us."
gilles villeneuve— Niki Lauda, triple Formula One World Champion - Donaldson, pg. 318
I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.
murray walker— Jasper Gerard (December 17, 2000) "It's the last lap and ... I don't believe it! - Interview", The Sunday Times, p. News Review 5.
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
bertolt brecht— "General, Your Tank Is a Powerful Vehicle", in "From a German War Primer", part of the Svendborg Poems (1939); as translated by Lee Baxandall in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 289
He was a young driver, just out on his second job. And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits for everyone in that coal-scarred city where children play without despair in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day about thirty thousand pounds of bananas...
harry chapin— 30,000 Pounds of Bananas
The driver wanted Reacher more than he wanted an undamaged front bumper.
lee child— Worth Dying For, (2010)
The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.
peter dicken— Chapter 14, The Distribution Industries, p. 475
As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!
steve maraboli— p. 41 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.
Bruce Springsteen— "Soul Driver"
Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine... That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.
— Chapter 1 (The Time Machine (1895))
Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world.
rebecca west— Interview with Marina Warner (Summer 1981), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Sixth Series (p. 17)
There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyard a pauper is going I wot; The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.
thomas noel— Thomas Noel, The Pauper's Drive.
"Once you get into the desert, there’s no going back," said the camel driver. "and, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. The rest is up to Allah , including the danger ."
— Paulo Coelho, in The Alchemist (1988), p. 77
I like the FedEx driver, because he's drug dealer and he don't even know it. And he's always on time!
— Mitch Hedberg, Track 10: "Sesame Seeds," Mitch All Together (2003).
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
You know, I want to just advise people watching at home playing that now popular drinking game of you take a shot whenever the Republicans say something that's not true: Please assign a designated driver.
— Anthony Weiner, in When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives ..., p.52
[Two Face: You're a lucky man. But he's not.] Who? [Your driver.]
— Who: Salvatore Maroni
— Note: Two-Face shoots his driver in the head, causing the car to crash.
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
john lennon
You talking to me?
Travis Bickle— Said by Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver (1976)
