Quotes of: Race-cars Keyword

Nat is already laughing. We go through this every morning. She tells Nik I own a clown car. I glower at her while I put my foot up onto Nik’s lap and kick the passenger door while turning the ignition. She starts. Works every time. Nik looks like h...

Friend-Zoned

I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape from the day-to-day anxieties of playing, and it kept me from getting too lost in the tournament fun house with its courtesy cars, caterers, locker room ...

Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from Twenty Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches

Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dyin...

Looking for Alaska

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon layi...

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Plenty of patrons had asked me strange things, but this was the first who asked me where my car was parked. It was almost comical to look at the man, because he actually thought I was going to tell him. I struggled to come up with a reply, but the be...

Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

This imaginary gift is a journey for your imagination. I send you... A luxury train ride. On this train are all the inspiring people you've ever wanted to meet or talk to. You glide from car to car, sitting or lying down on velvet lounge chairs, list...

SARK

Tommy DeVito: [about Morrie's corpse] Hey Frank, let's chop him up. Frankie Carbone: All right. [starts to get out of the car] Tommy DeVito: Where you going? Where you going, you dizzy motherfucker, you? Frankie Carbone: To chop him up. Tommy DeVito:...

Goodfellas

Driving instructor: It's okay. Normally you would not be going sixty-five down the wrong way of a one-way street. [a large semi truck appears speeding out of a tunnel towards the car. Stephanie screams, even Frank is terrified, but the unflappable dr...

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

David's Mom: When your father was here, I used to think, "This was it. This is the way it was always going to be. I had the right house. I had the right car. I had the right life." David: There is no right house. There is no right car. David's Mom: G...

Pleasantville

[Elwood Blues Jake Blues has a fight over the police car Elwood Blues got after he traded away the original bluesmobile for a microphone] Elwood: You don't like it? Jake: No I don't like it... [Elwood Blues floors the pedal and jumps over an open dra...

The Blues Brothers

On a second note, though, I have something to say about pain. There are lots of kinds of pain. Pain of smashing your fingers in a car door, pains of loosing a baby, pain of failing a test. But in their own little ways, these pains are all agonizing. ...

Alysha Speer

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

Clockwork

If life is becoming a race, could it be time to slow down?"el

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.

The Cordello Quest

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion

...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

A Familiar Rain

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Brighton Belle

In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

Boy21

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

Boy21