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Quotes About Brakes

We froze. The night, the earth, the universe slammed on its brakes. Time sucked on a chloroform Popsicle.
~ Tom Robbins
It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.
~ Sebastian Vettel
I prefer a bike to a horse. The brakes are more easily checked.
~ Lambert Jeffries
I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen.
~ Josh Pais
blindfolded." "Tell me you're kidding," he said. But then came the screech of brakes on his left and the matching shriek of Yeager's heart. "Shit, Zoe! Open your eyes." He heard the grin in her voice. "Don't worry so much. That was just Mr. Curtis in his '72 El Dorado. He drives with cataracts, I drive with my eyes closed. I think that makes us about even." Yeager's self-pity evaporated as he imagined thousands of
~ Christie Ridgway
The train's conductor, J. F. Gamble, flung himself into the cab, his uniform soaked and dripping, to report the worst: one of the hundred-ton boxcars at the rear of the train had been toppled by the wind and waves, automatically locking the air brakes on the entire chain.
~ Les Standiford
Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
~ Dallas Willard
Did we, as a nation, miss something? Did we recognize ourselves as going downhill with the brakes off? Did we realize that we were being numbed and shell-shocked with far greater shocks still to come?
~ John Coleman
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder
~ Anonymous