Drove Quotes
371 Drove quotes by 322 unique authors
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I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I…
— C.S. Lewis
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As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.…
— Arundhati Roy
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If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair,…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.…
— James N. Frey
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We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
— Georges Bataille
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but…
— Charles Bukowski
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Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew…
— Woody Allen
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And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain…
— Douglas Adams
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Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove…
— Sarah Dessen
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Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove…
— Frances Hardinge
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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
— George Orwell
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I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced…
— Judy Blundell
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And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.
— John Green
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I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a…
— Janet Evanovich
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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
— William Butler Yeats
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Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat…
— Nicole Krauss
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I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk…
— Sarah Dessen
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Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge
— J R Ward
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Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen.…
— Ishmael Beah
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He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I…
— Sloane Crosley
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Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for…
— Roger Lowenstein
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When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”…
— Paul Theroux
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Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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