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Quotes About Driving

I've been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I've found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.
~ John Lanchester
Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrane.
~ John McPhee
It's a wild, windswept landscape with the ocean on your right and the harbor on your left as you drive out. There are almost always seals. There are sometimes sharks—you've been warned! It is "far away" (it takes nearly forty-five minutes to get there from town), but it's a Nantucket experience
~ Elin Hilderbrand
you'll never forget. There is a guardhouse just before the Wauwinet Inn where you purchase your sticker. On your way home, you can pop into the Wauwinet's super-cute tiny bar for a drink. (Topper's, the restaurant, is exquisite but expensive, even by Nantucket standards.) There are some people who think driving on a beach is an abomination. I respect that—and so does Nantucket. Most beaches do not allow cars. Here are some of my favorite
~ Elin Hilderbrand
How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwiches. "Don't they drive everywhere?
~ Elizabeth Strout
Driving, Lambright thought the moon looked like a fingerprint of chalk.
~ Elizabeth Strout
From the corner of his eye, he watched his sister; he thought she was a good driver. He liked her bulkiness, the way she filled her seat and drove with such authority. He wished he could tell her this; he wished he could say something more than that she was great. He finally said, 'Vicky, we didn't turn out so bad, you know.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
~ ASAP Rocky
While driving I had an accident with a magician. It wasn't my fault, the guy came out of nowhere.
~ Auggie Cook
Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety.
~ Australian Traffic Rule
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
~ Ayrton Senna
And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
~ Ayrton Senna
By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.
~ Ayrton Senna
I am happy that I will be able to drive again and I will also see Eddie Jordan again, as it's been some time since I had direct contact with him. I am really curious to see what it's like with the Jordan team and how they will react to me, what they want to tell me.
~ Jos Verstappen
The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.
~ Enzo Ferrari
The governor's not allowed to drive. That's part of the life you accept.
~ Gina Raimondo
I wish I'd got my driving license at 18, not 22. I also wish I had graduated earlier, even though I didn't finish college.
~ Farhan Akhtar
I have a brilliant memory of being driven back to school when 'Super Trouper' was number one in the charts in 1980. When it came on the radio my mum just drove right past the school gates! When you're 11 years old and meant to be going back to boarding school, that's a great feeling.
~ Ol Parker
I think from a driving perspective, the great thing of being in a simulator a lot is that you can constantly work on areas. Of course it's not like being in a real car, and you always have to remember that, but it means there are all these things that you can work on.
~ Susie Wolff
When I'm driving, the fewer distractions there are, the better it is to focus on the job in hand.
~ Lewis Hamilton
People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.
~ George Carlin
Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.
~ George Carlin
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!
~ George Carlin
Comscore, Nielsen, MediaMetrix and Quantcast studies all show women are the driving force of the most important net trend of the decade, the social web.
~ Aileen Lee