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Quotes About Brake

Corinne was confusedly aware of something dashing in front of the station wagon at the crest of a hill. A gray-funny shape blurred with spee and before Corinne could think to brake the vehicle's front wheels, ran over it with a thud, and beside her, Marianne began to scream and scream.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It is not known why motorists, who sing the joys of the open road, spend so much petrol every week-end grinding their way to Southend and Brighton and Margate, in the stench of each other's exhausts, one hand on the horn and one foot on the brake, their eyes starting from their orbits in the nerve-racking search for cops, corners, blind turnings, and cross-road suicides.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Murder, you see, is an amateur crime. I'm speaking of course of the kind of murder you have in mind - not gangster stuff. One feels, very often, as though these nice ordinary chaps had been overtaken, as it were, by murder, almost accidentally. They've been in a tight place, or they've wanted something very badly, money or a woman - and they've killed to get it. The brake that operates with most of us doesn't operate with them.
~ Agatha Christie
A skilled rider should be able to operate the throttle and front brake simultaneously.
~ David L. Hough
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
~ N. T. Wright
Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.
~ Fatih Birol
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
~ Julian Simon
A wounded deer leaps highest, A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs: A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings! Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim
~ Emily Dickinson
Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.
~ Brad Bird
I don't mind to compete, the age doesn't matter I think, you still have to brake and turn the wheels like everybody else has to, we're all running the same car so I have nothing to lose really.
~ Jos Verstappen
One fragment from Vis consists of a ski tip, under which there is a wedge-like protuberance. It is carved in the shape of an elk's head facing towards the rear.3 It was evidently designed as a brake to prevent slipping backwards – a forerunner of modern waxless cross-country skis.
~ Roland Huntford
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.
~ Jane Levy
what we think of as peacefulness is wrong and peacefulness or the realms of peacefulness are really no more than a gauge of movement, an accelerator or a brake, depending.
~ Roberto Bolano
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The mold we give to our lives is so that there will be no cataclysms. The order we seek we are willing to surrender to the flow of life at any time, but it is there as a brake on a car, and our health is a brake. We put brakes on, against our temperament. he said, "Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it.
~ Anais Nin
I became a real racing nerd - I knew all the drivers and talked about karting all the time. I wanted to have a go, but when I got into a kart the noise scared me. I was also worried that I wouldn't be able to control the brake with my foot.
~ Nicolas Hamilton
In India, horns function as turn signals, brake lights, hand gestures, prayers.
~ Sallie Tisdale
There is also the fact that, unlike China, India is a democracy. Thus, Mumbai's robust activism functions as a brake on the drive to impose from above the fantasy of a global city.
~ Gyan Prakash
Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
~ Gerald Brooks
The driver is normally responsible for adjusting the brake balance, so if it is happening automatically you could brake later and take more speed into each corner.
~ Ralf Schumacher
I think what I've found is that in IndyCar, the balance is a bit more all over the place compared with Formula 1! You have to get used to that and work around it. Again, as a driver, you can help the situation by the way you brake and apply the throttle to make the balance better.
~ Marcus Ericsson
I found the gas, he said. Now all's I need to do is find the brake.
~ Jeannette Walls
But, unlike us, Ozzy had a restraint, a limit, a conscience, a brake. And that restraint came in the form of a homely, rotund little British woman whose very name sets lips trembling and knees knocking: Sharon Osbourne, a shitkicker and disciplinarian like no other we had ever met, a woman whose presence could in an instant send us reeling back to our childhood fear of authority.
~ Tommy Lee
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
~ David Adam