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“Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.”

Men Littles Waiting Differences Journalist Drivers Homosexual Unemployed Taxi Plumber

Author:Marguerite Duras

“In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.”

Firsts Ends States New York First Time Pursuit Drivers License Divorced Elusive New York State

Author:Suzanne Vega

“In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.”

Doe Country Enough Humor Light Government Funny Limits Humorous Speed Drivers Italian Strict Foreign Countries Speed Limits

Author:Dave Barry

“Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.”

Funny Humorous Japan Drivers Pilots Exes Cab Tokyo Cab Drivers

Author:Bob Hope

“If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.”

“She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.”

Wells Science Mother Literature Known Slave Chinese Drivers Biographies Well Known Militant Empresses

Author:Emilio G. Segre

“... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.”

Firsts Movement Performances Strategy Data Drivers Tape Site And Off Liability Storage Reliability Disk Portability

Author:George Arthur Crump

“Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.”

Men Drivers Frustrated Traffic Jam Amiable Traffic Jam

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.”

Needs Feels Sometimes Perspective Appreciate Fortunate I've Learned Seats Drivers Passengers

Author:M. Ward

“I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.”

Want Two Used Mother Week Drivers License Two Weeks Yosemite

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.”

Persons Easy Organization Breaths Leaving Drivers Contracts Better Person Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Great Organizations

Author:Kurt Busch

“Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.”

Ifs Way Light Running Opportunity Cities Red Species Behave Not Sure Drivers Fewer Red Lights

Author:Linwood Barclay

“My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.”

Ifs Men Wells Country Might Guy Behinds Late Phones Cells Hats Drivers Old Man Complaints Old Guys Winding Road

Author:Linwood Barclay

“Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.”

Needs Country Community Economic Our Country Drivers Providing Small Business Stimulus Our Community

Author:Melissa Bean

“I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.”

Kind Acting Attitude Hell Saws Changed Scene Mirrors Saved Drivers Taxi My Attitude Changed My Life De Niro

Author:Michael Biehn

“Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.”

Giving Made Done Actors Changed Serious Credit Drivers Taxi Changed My Life Scorsese De Niro

Author:Michael Biehn

“I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.”

Littles Rocks Drivers Rock N Roll Backseat Little Rock Backseat Drivers

Author:Nina Blackwood

“My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.”

Home Running Kids Mother Next Father House Individual Attention Survival Meals Drivers Lorry

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.”

Long Jobs Destiny Long Time Drivers Mechanic

Author:Fernando Alonso

“I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.”

Littles Sports Late Yoga Dancing Nervous Gentle Drivers Despise Clumsy

Author:Emma Donoghue

“It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.”

Should Might Tough Drivers

Author:Scott Dixon

“I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.”

Bigs New York Drivers

Author:Dan Fogler

“Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.”

Race Car Designer Apples Drivers Amazon Input Race Car Race Car Driver

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.”

Firsts Hard Hands Used Car Changed Wheels Drivers Racing Components Gears Race Car Steering

Author:Juan Manuel Fangio

“I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.”

Important Hard School Mother Opportunity Grew Dad Grew Up High School Labor My Dad Drivers Milk Household Secretary Truck Good Education Truck Driver

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.”

Way Want Past Force Drivers

Author:Jeff Gordon

“I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along with the work-at-home space.”

Mean Home Growth Space Entertainment Core Drivers Mobile

Author:Jim Allchin

“People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'”

People Looks Wish Lines Car Computer Driving Drivers Replaced Driving Cars

Author:Marc Andreessen

“Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.”

Different Running Challenges Race Team Car Type Members Drivers Adjustment Team Member

Author:Michael Andretti

“So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Has Beens House Bits Waiting Dark Walks Scared Backgrounds Drivers Wait For Me

Author:Petra Stunt

“They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."”

“There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.”

Firsts Rate Satisfaction Credit Executives Drivers Truck Truck Driver

Author:B. C. Forbes

“So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.”

Ifs Has Beens Bigs Half Return Higher Europe Stores Drivers Euro

Author:Jim Cantalupo

“I have to accept risk as a racing driver.”

Sports Accepting Risk Drivers Racing Racing Driver

Author:Emerson Fittipaldi

“I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.”

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Author:Tracey Gold

“I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.”

Way My Own Unique Drivers Aspire

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.”

Thinking Writing Children Sometimes Novel Etc Drivers Bus Ironic Exes Truck Policemen Seamen Truck Driver Bus Driver

Author:Brian Jacques

“The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.”

Winning Race Careers Team Members Chiefs Drivers Crew Daytona Daytona 500

Author:Jimmie Johnson

“The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.”

Jobs Lasts Authority Drivers Chicago Bus Bus Driver

Author:Vernon Jordan

“I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.”

Thinking Way Years Hard Levels Support Five Prove Financial Humble Five Years Japan Drivers Racing Sponsors Debut Hard Way Prove Myself Racing Driver Financial Support

Author:Tom Kristensen

“They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.”

Used Laughing Drivers Bus Dense

Author:Joni Mitchell

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