Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Adie

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

W. C. Fields

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Laurie Lee

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

Sarah Parish

I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got.

Tiger just won in Japan, so it's no surprise he's going to play well. You know, maybe if he wasn't throwing up, he probably would have drove everything out there.

Pierre Lueders

Yeah, it was a nice drive. We drove for my first back-to-back wins in Europe to the site of where I won my first four-man race last year.

Our hole 11 at Campbellsville is 404 yards and on a level surface, and he drove the green on that one -- in competition. He and I played in a golf tournament in Vegas two consecutive years, and on a 517-yard par 5 there, I saw him hit a pitching wedge 95 yards to the green.

Steve really drove well. He was on fire this week.

I thought that would get us down a little bit. But we got it down and drove down methodically to score.

Michael Cuddyer

I was able to sit back on it, had a good swing and drove it over the fence.

Chris Duhon

But they were there, ... Every time I drove they were there, waiting for me.

Lambert drove down into the gravel then spun around and parked partially on the pavement facing McDonald's.

Michael Socha

I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.

I got a good start there on 10 and drove it in the fairway a lot on the back nine. It's a great golf course, very tough. If you're in the fairway, obviously, you can shoot some good scores.

Scott Podsednik

I got a good pitch to hit and I drove it out,

Aaron Lee

He understood his economic situation. That's part of his work ethic. He knows how Stephanie struggled to get him some shoes. Part of her sacrifice drove him. He talks about repaying his mom.

Carol Bartz

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Hall Way.

Richard P. McCormick was one of the luminaries of the Rutgers history department. I met him when I was first hired at Rutgers in 1974. He befriended me from the time I arrived. I drove out to see him only last week. We had an hour-long conversation, a wonderful conversation. I promised to come back. I didn't think it would be so soon.

(She) told the defendant that she wanted to stay with him, and they drove west with the intent to 'get as far away as possible, get married, and start a new life,'

Clint Bowyer

I got sideways but Kyle (Busch) pretty much drove right through me. What goes around comes around.

We were able to get some goal scoring tonight. We drove to the net well.

Abigail Adams just goes on and on and on about the presence of Washington, about what it was like to be around him, which I'm sure drove her husband just crazy.

About 20 minutes later, the suspects drove by and took one shot at them.

Michael D. Barnes

(According to those who drove the slave ship), if we lose 25 to 50 percent of 'cargo,' we could make money.

Patricia Cornwell

That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traffic teemed, people pushing forward to promise as they drove through new construction, and the past was bulldozed away.

The next thing I knew there was meat and trailers all over the ground. I drove over it. I drove over the meat. I was trying to stop....

It's the same old stalwarts that drove the market in 2005 and have kicked off the year for 2006.

It truly was more as you drove through . . . being stopped, having to be in the middle of it.

The turning point was 9/11. It drove a lot of interest in homeland security, a lot of government spending and increased spending from large, Fortune 500 corporations.

We're talking about greed, greed, greed -- greed for money, that's what drove you.

Elizabeth Warren

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

Peter Coyote

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.