Zitat des Tages über Treiber / Driver:
The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.
I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.
I'm a very, very conservative driver.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
I have to accept risk as a racing driver.
As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
When I was a little girl, there was this unbelievably cool female bus driver who'd work near us. I remember thinking I'd like to be her when I grew up.
F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.
I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?
Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.
As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres.
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.
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
People often talk about the self-driving car and what will that do. In 32 states, the number one job is to be the driver. But remember, it's not just the driver. Let's think about the truck stops along the way. When you suddenly have a lot of other people who are dependent on those careers.
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
A racing driver has to be a good driver.
I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.
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.
Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.
The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.