“I get really irritated with crap drivers, so the last time I got cross was probably behind the wheel. I'll shout from the safety of my car, with the window up, but if anyone ever got out and challenged me I'd be terrified.” IfsLastsBehindsCarCrossesWindowSafetyWheelsDriversCrapLast TimeTerrifiedGet RealIrritated Author:Nikki Sanderson
“I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.” PeopleSeemsRaceAdviceCarStyleAskingDrivingBackgroundsDriversRacingDirtRacersAsking For Advice Author:Austin Dillon
“By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.” PeopleAgeKnownCarDriversSwearPhantomsCadillacs Author:George Burns
“NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what's going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That's the most important thing.” TryingDoeImportantJobsCarEqualComputerImportant ThingsChiefsDriversCrewGood JobNascar Author:Jimmie Johnson
“Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.” RaceCarDriversRace CarNascarRace Car Driver Author:Kevin Harvick
“As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.” HardEasyRaceEmotionCarTrackDrivingDriversContainingRace CarRace Car DriverRace Track Author:Kevin Harvick
“We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.” ThinkingWantWellsSometimesHardHelpingHoursForgetCarCryHard WorkTiredAverageStudiosGrantedWorking ItDriversMansionsMovie SetsRecording Studio Author:Leonard Pitts
“The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.” WayFeelsLooksLife IsSecretRaceCreativeOur LivesRiskCarEmotionalPaidSillyDirtyEaseDriversConcreteEmbarrassmentLaundryRace CarCreative LifeRace Car DriverDirty Laundry Author:Paul Schrader
“It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.” EasyCarEasierDriversBackseatBackseat Drivers Author:Rick McCallum
“The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.” NeedsCountryStatesUnitedCareersUnited StatesSuccessfulCarDriversPassportsSuccessful Career Author:Mario Andretti
“I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.” ThinkingWorldWholeMovingHateLostSeeingCarMissingI HateMirrorsCornersDrivingWhole WorldAwfulDriversGarageParking Author:Rachael Leigh Cook
“I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.” SaidI CanDoneWholeCarCryEmotionalRight NowSceneDrivingDriversCar Driving Author:Tinsel Korey
“A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads, Low Bridge Ahead. Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, Got stuck, huh? The truck driver says, No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas.” KnowsHandsWalksCarLowsPoliceCome UpDrivingMilesStuckHipsBridgesRanGasDriversCopTruckDeliveringFreewaysTruck DriverPolice Cars Author:Bill Engvall
“If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?” IfsResponsibilityCarGunOwnersDriversLicenseRegisterGun Owners Author:Stephen King
“Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?” NeedsYearsMeanWholeTodayWaitingCarTomorrowUltimateWinterTrackSymbolsDriversPilotsStaffCoatsPalmsWaiting For YouDays Of The YearStatus SymbolCashmere Author:Elliott Abrams
“I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!” FirstsNamesCarLowsBasesDrivingDriversTruckOld CarTruck DriverTow Author:Michelle Singletary
“I definitely felt frightened [on Skyfall], but never in danger, because they were always so careful about everything. Some of the driving, particularly on that road around the sheer-drop cliff was actually done by stunt driver Ben Collin, who is otherwise known as The Stig from the TV show Pop Gear. He's a brilliant drive, nonetheless, it was terrifying to be careening along when a wrong turn would mean a thousand-foot drop and you're not in control and you want to slow the car down.” WantMeanDoneShowsTurnsFeltKnownFeetCarDangerTvsThousandCarefulPopsBrilliantDrivingDriversFrightenedSheerTv ShowsCliffsGearsWrong TurnSkyfallStig Author:Naomie Harris
“As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver.” FirstsMadeFactsBigsEyeKidsAgeYoungDesirePassionRaceFiveFocusCarTvsWheelsDriversAggressionYoung AgeRace CarRace Car DriverMatchboxes Author:Andy Lally
“There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.” NeedsGivingHelpingCarSkillsGiving UpProgramAgingDrivers Author:Robert James Thomson
“The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.” AbleCarDriversSmarter Author:Robert James Thomson
“Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.” PeopleIfsKindWould BeUsedCausesWaitingPerfectCitiesMinutesCarCrimeNarrativeBridgesDestructiveThrownFlatsDevicesDriversNailsTrapsOverboardTyres Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too much for him. If a car came to close or made the smallest mistake with the rules of the road he shouted, "blasted woman driver", to which my mother was often able to say, with truth, "Funny thing, she's dressed as a man."” IfsMenMadeSometimesAbleMotherFatherMistakeToo MuchCarFemaleSightDrivingEnjoyedDriversVehicleSmallestFunny Things Author:Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
“With small dogs people don't reinforce the same behavior that they do on a larger dog. If you are a driver no matter what size car you have it doesn't matter. Same thing goes for any gender. All the rules are the same.” PeopleIfsMatterDogCarBehaviorNo Matter WhatSizeGenderDriversSmall Dogs Author:Cesar Millan
“I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.” WritingStuffCarNew YorkDrivers Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always driven, or he takes the train, or he gets the bus. I was saying 'Well, why don't we ring the changes for the 21st Century, and stick him in the car?'. [Executive Producer and son of the author, John Simenon] said, 'Well, you can if you want, but there'll be lots of people who won't like it'. So he's a non-driver ... But no, Top Gear was never a consideration for me; and neither was I asked” PeopleIfsWantWellsDoeSaidFactsRolesOne ThingCenturyCarSonTrainSticksDrivenRingsProducersFrustrationConsiderationExecutivesDriversBus21st CenturyGearsTop Gear Author:Rowan Atkinson