Drove Quotes

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.