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It is somewhat curious that the three persons whose names are the most universally recorded were of very obscure parentage. Moses was a foundling; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.
— Thomas Paine, in The Age of Reason, Part First (1793), Ch. VII
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"
He is a driver with talent, ability and maturity, he manages to finish all his races. My record is going to be in good hands.
fernando alonso— Emerson Fittipaldi, after Alonso took his record as Formula One's youngest champion. [5]
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]
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.
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)
Michael has been the author of a unique chapter in the history of Formula 1 and of Ferrari in particular. It has yet to reach its conclusion and what he has achieved extends over and above the results obtained. He is an exceptional man and will become a legend as a driver.
Michael Schumacher— Jean Todt, Ferrari team boss, cited in: Planet-F1 (2006) "Todt and Montezemolo hail 'legend' Schumi". on Planet-F1. September 12, 2006 (no longer online)
She's not your typical cheesecake pinup girl. She's beautiful and talented and has the mouth of a truck driver when necessary.
julia stiles— Selma Blair, US Weekly, January 20, 2003
"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))
Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
linus torvalds— Torvalds, Linus (2001-01-12). Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch. Retrieved on 2012-06-22.
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).
Bus driver? What bus driver?
— Who: Grumpy
— Note: Character is a member of a group of bank robbers. He asks another one of the members (the Joker in disguise) if he had been ordered to kill him when the robbery was complete (because he was ordered to kill Happy (which he did) who killed Dopey and had correctly assumed he was next). The Joker then replies that "[he will] kill the bus driver". Grumpy is then killed by a school bus that drives through the wall behind him. The driver in question (another member of the gang) is then murdered by the Joker himself.
[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)
