“I took over a city that had two riots in four years and I had none. And they knew they couldn't riot on me. And when I saw the people on the street in New York City, I said to myself, you're breaking Giuliani's rules. You don't take my streets. You can have my sidewalks, but you don't take my streets, because ambulances have to get through there, fire trucks have to get through there.” PeopleYearsSaidTwoCitiesFireSawsFourStreetsNew YorkNew York CityFour YearsTruckRiotSidewalkAmbulance Author:Rudy Giuliani
“That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup truck of economic programs. It's the Ford F-150 of economic programs. It's about manufacturing. It's about oil, fossil fuels. It's a deliberate, forceful reassertion of an image of American industrialism that we have inherited from the 20th century.” EconomicCenturyTrumpPromiseProgramOilCampaignsFuel20th CenturyFossilsTruckDeliberateManufacturingFossil FuelPickupsPickup Trucks Author:Judy Woodruff
“I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for Wells Fargo, so I had my gun and hat, which weighed me down in the heat. It was 97 degrees here in New York, and they had to turn the air conditioner off because it was too loud. So, I say, "Damn, it's hot in here!" That's how we came up with the song, "Damn, It's Hot." It was from our soul. We just got together, sang and made our own lyrics.” WellsMadeStillsSoulTogetherRememberSongTurnsAirNew YorkDegreesGunHotStudiosDrivingLoudDamnHeatHatsUniformsTruckFargoAir ConditionerWells Fargo Author:Sharon Jones
“If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.” IfsLyingStarsFourInspiredRestaurantsChefTruckBarbecue Author:Padma Lakshmi
“I think people will want to eat more street food, things that are more off the cuff, things with a food truck background that people have flipped into a restaurant. If you look at the new places opening, they're quite gutsy, earthy places.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantLooksStreetsBackgroundsOpeningRestaurantsTruckNew PlacesFlippedCuffsFood Trucks Author:Tom Aikens
“I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.” KnowsShouldFirstsSaidWantedSoundSawsStyleShould HaveCoalTruckWelsh Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“Katherine Heigl, she was exactly the opposite of what I thought she'd be like. She smokes cigarettes, or she did then, and she's got a truck-driver's mouth, and she's really funny.” MouthsOppositesSmokeDriversCigaretteTruckTruck Driver Author:Diane Keaton
“If someone disturbs you... they didn't kill you, but you really feel like "I wish this guy was dead"... you know that you will not kill him yourself, but if he gets struck by a truck or by a train, you would really be happy.” IfsKnowsFeelsGuyWishTrainThis GuyTruck Author:Gaspar Noe
“It's of being alone with my dad. He drove a truck for a living. But he had a few free hours in the middle of the day, between the morning shift and the late afternoon shift. Because I was the youngest of nine, I could have him all to myself when they were at school. We'd watch movies at home, or go to the movies, and he introduced me to the guys who still inspire me today.” StillsHomeTodaySchoolGuyHoursWatchesMorningMiddleInspireDadLateMy DadNineAfternoonTruckWatch MovieLate Afternoon Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the truck drove through and killed all these people. It's the new reality, unfortunately. The idea of trying to explore how we process this kind of event, how we survive emotionally, what we tell our kids: That was the movie [Patriots Day] we wanted to make.” PeopleTryingKindIdeasRealityKidsWantedProcessNiceEventsNew YorkMarkPatriotTruckBostonFlewPatriot DayBastille Author:Peter Berg
“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.” IfsLifeInspirationalLeftMarriageDivorceGet OverTruckDivorcedKeep MovingBeing SadAfter DivorceFunny DivorceMarriage DivorceMarriage And DivorceMackGoing Through DivorceDivorce LawyersInspirational DivorceMack Trucks Book:Mary, Mary Source: Mary, Mary
“Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.” PeopleIfsBelieveRealUseHomeBigsTodayAmericaEnergyTermNaturalHalfCarStandardsIndependenceShipsFuelGasElectricityCarbonCoalTruckMarineRelianceLiquidEmissionsCleanersProvidersBountyNatural GasCarbon EmissionsEnergy Independence Author:Thomas Friedman
“Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking.” PeopleWorldWayDiesMurderScaredHorribleBordersImmigrantsIllegalMexicoDesperationShockingTruckAtrocitiesFleeingIllegal ImmigrantsInfanticideHonduras Author:Noam Chomsky
“Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.” StillsChildhoodListeningSceneOur ChildrenIndependentCreditBunchCardsCaliforniaSatPretendingPunkApartmentShellsShocked80sFillingTruckBuddyCredit CardDeckChildlikeSkatesMisfitsEbayVendorsVideogameOaklandMemorabilia Author:Rick Remender
“I'm not doing any crazy stuff any more. Like I used to do high falls; I used to jump from the motorcycle to the truck myself. That's unheard of today. Now nobody would ever do that. In those days it was stupid, man. I just did it because that's what it was, but that I don't do anymore.” MenTodayUsedFallStuffCrazyStupidTruckMotorcycleUnheardStupid Men Author:Dolph Lundgren
“When I get about five readers I can rub together in one genre, I leave that genre and go somewhere else. And this is due to a vow that I made myself when I started writing - that if I had any success at all, I would not be bound to one form of writing. That I would write what moves me. The only way I can see me surviving and doing more than one book is to present the readers with a Dan Simmons novel, with whatever tropes and protocols from whatever genre I want to borrow them. If that builds a Dan Simmons readership, well then, okay. Otherwise, forget about it. I'd rather drive a truck.” WritingBookTogetherMovingForgetNovelOkayTruckSurvivingVow Author:Dan Simmons
“What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.” ActingMagicProducersElectricityTruckAnimosityCatering Author:Ethan Hawke
“Bush and the corporate kleptocrats have stomped on too many people and left too many people out of the system, and those people are now in rebellion. It's not just poor people they are holding down but the middle class, as well. I have a favorite bumper sticker I saw on a pickup truck last year in Austin. It said, "Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"” PeoplePoorMiddle ClassRebellionPoor PeopleTruckBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:Jim Hightower
“There's an old line that goes, the truck you see 400 yards down the road is not the truck that hits you. When we see these problems coming, they usually get defused. Brexit may have been a surprise, but we recognized it as something that could possibly happen.” ProblemSurpriseTruck Author:John Manley
“I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.” MindHomeWantedUnitedRadioMilkTruckDeliveryOf My MindParcel Author:Larry King
“Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.” ProblemTogetherSpiritualHumanitySpiritualityEffortTruth IsEnlightenmentConsciousMultipleAddictTruckHeroinWaitressTruck Driver Author:Charles Eisenstein
“People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions too. But I want to write my real movie about these Guatemalan immigrants, and how they hid under a truck for 300 miles." And that's fine. I'd love to make that film too, but to dismiss everything I did just because it's action seems wrong.” PeopleWritingRealActionFilmTruck Author:Shane Black
“I was recruited by Pepsi and put out in Pittsburgh, and I worked in the bottling lines, and then I was sent on to Phoenix, Arizona, where I also drove trucks and I put up signs, Pepsi signage, and I was then sent on to Las Vegas for a month of training, and then I finally ended up in Milwaukee. So I got a really hands - on introduction to the soft-drink industry. I was so appreciative of the fact that I was able to not only learn a business through what I learned at business school, but I was able to learn it with hands-on learning. I'm a huge believer in hands-on learning.” SchoolTrainingBelieverTruckIntroductionAppreciative Author:John Sculley
“We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out is the realization that an attachment to any kind of form is pointless. Forgive me if I seem like a complete nihilist, but if the demolition trucks show up and the buildings come down, then that just presents a new setting in which an artist can work. The real challenge is trying to conceal my delight in the process.” TryingKindRealArtistChallengesBuildingForgivingRealizationTruckPointlessForgive MeNihilist Author:Kirsha Kaechele
“There are a lot of things that you see in the world ...We have a collection of gloves that have been run over by trucks that a friend named JP Williams collects. They are really beautiful. They look like sculpture. And he has a hundred pictures of them - we're making a book out of them. It's all that kind of ephemera, things that exist that no one really looks at unless it's put to them in a certain way.” WorldKindBookRunningBeautifulTruckReally Beautiful Author:Andy Spade
“I was a handsome boy, a very handsome young man, bright blue eyes, mmm. I would make trucks skid off the road. Anyway, girls were never a problem; the problem was me. But a lot of guys didn't like me because I made it look so easy, but it wasn't easy for me or anybody. When you're 24, it's not easy. You haven't reached anywhere that you want to be, so my looks helped me get in the movies, and I'm privileged that my parents came up with what I look like. What they did I'll never know and I don't care.” MenProblemEyeCareGuyGirlEasyParentBoysTruckBlue Eyes Author:Tony Curtis
“1973 was the first gasoline crisis in the world. That year, I designed the first aerodynamic truck, eating 40 percent less fuel. I put it on exhibit everywhere. It was 30 years ahead of its time. Nobody is building it today, and everybody still has problems with their boxy cars and trucks eating up fuel.” WorldProblemTodayCarBuildingEatingCrisisTruck Author:Luigi Colani
“First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.” IfsWantFirstsTwoBigsMovingNumbersCarHorseDrivingSnowMy TimeFarmsTruckPickupsSuvsPickup TrucksBig Cars Author:Denis Leary
“I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.” PeopleThinkingMatterJobsDoctorsLikesMemoirDriversTruckInsidersTruck Driver Author:David Mamet
“I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.” WorldFeelsTwoTruck Author:John Mayer
“When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.” FirstsMadeBigsSixFirst TimeStartingMaking MoneyBig ThingsTruck Author:Matthew McConaughey
“When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.” KidsAgeLostStuffStepsTaughtDadDriversFarmersCowsCowboyTruckPart TimeTruck DriverStep Dad Author:Tim McGraw
“All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.” WantBookStoriesReadingSubjectsInformationNewspapersVideoMagazinesCakeArticlesWeddingDevotedSiteTruckAppsStreamingRunawayPicklesWedding Cake Author:Mario Batali
“Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.” MeanBodyEyeSufferingCausesAnimalSupportLegsWideMeatTreatmentTruckHumaneShakingTransportPositive Energy Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.” ThinkingWantYearsLongBigsFunFourCarStartingDrivenDrivingWheelsVehicleTruckBig FamiliesPorsche Author:Kevin O'Leary
“My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.” BigsGuyGrewGrew UpPicksBusFarmersUnclesMasculinityTruckMustacheIllinoisPickupsPickup Trucks Author:Nick Offerman
“Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.” NeedsGivingMeanMy FriendsTroopsTruckBumperStickerBumper StickerPickupsPickup Trucks Author:Solomon Ortiz
“I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.” PeopleMenRealGuyRealizingCommunityProudBuiltDriversItalianBusCopTruckMafiaWorking ManFiremanAberrationTruck DriverItalian AmericanBus DriverBeing Italian Author:Chazz Palminteri
“My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.” WantChildrenRealKidsFiveMachinesRaisedCaliforniaGrandmotherSurvivorMy GrandmotherTruckSewingDakotaPickupsNorth DakotaPickup Trucks Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'” SaidHumorFunnyLastsRememberComedyGrandfatherLast WordsTruckMy Grandfather Author:Emo Philips
“When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.” SchoolPoorBoysHigh SchoolDrivingBootsTruckMemphisPoor Boy Author:Elvis Presley
“I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanDrivingTruckReally MeanMean People Author:Elvis Presley
“In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.” WorldFeelsMadeKidsSidesClassGrowing UpGrowingMiddleListeningRadioNoiseAliensMiddle ClassDriversRelevantFascinatedTruckMississippiKids Growing UpBombayTruck Driver Author:Salman Rushdie
“There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.” ColorRootsAnd LovePhotographDrivingTitlesCaliforniaSundayLos AngelesTruckSantaJanuaryBarbaraGridsSanta Barbara Author:Jerry Saltz
“The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.” DoneShowsLastsNightGuyGirlFoundStuffFourWeekCrazyBuildingDuesGermanyTruckGarbageSneakDumpstersBeliebers Author:Justin Bieber
“It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.” HardKidsThreeSummerEastBrokeHatsHotelShellsTruckDivorcedStrawsCircuitsStraw Hats Author:William Shatner
“When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'” ThinkingKnowsHomeMightSongAsksRecordsSittingTruckBack Home Author:Blake Shelton
“I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.” NeedsCompanyRecordsReturnEqualMessagesManagementFishesHuntsTruckDeerRecord CompaniesBack Roads Author:Blake Shelton