Car Quotes - Page 51

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and get a lot done.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think.

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

Keep calm and carry on.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

A car is just fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it.