#drive

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#high #high quality #i #like #movie

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives. ↗

— James Wolcott

#channeling #conservatives #drive #enough #eyes

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed. ↗

— James Sallis

#funny #james #quote #sallis #funny

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. ↗

— David Baldacci

#driven #find #go #i #new

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life. ↗

— Stan Getz

#music #musician #perfection #life

On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#dome-sky #drive #life #love #relationships

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. ↗

— James Lafferty

#completely #drives #fan #go #i

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#become #cars #citizens #competing #destroy

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#come #country #custodians #driven #english