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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. -- Steven Wright
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. -- Paul Valery
Use fear as an engine, not as a brake. -- Paulo Coelho
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. -- Steven Wright
Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on. -- Thomas Beecham
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. -- Paul Newman
...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights -- Canibus
The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction. -- Bob Sorge
It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it. -- Fabian Cancellara
Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that. -- Jackie Stewart
It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. -- Mario Andretti
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order. -- Maggie Scarf
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake. -- Walter Benjamin
Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner. -- Keiichi Tsuchiya
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. -- Leon Trotsky
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 320km/h, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body. -- Jenson Button
The daughters of God don't brake for jerks. -- Marianne Williamson
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people. -- Dan Buettner
You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake. -- Guo Guangchang
Just as I never liked bumper stickers - even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student - I don't like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification. -- Meghan Daum
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears. -- Jane Levy
You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%. -- Jenson Button
Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. -- Terry Savage
The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners. -- Tom Kristensen
One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I brake for brunettes. -- Rhett Akins
Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake. -- Gerald Brooks
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on. -- Maxwell Maltz
When people merge, they just brake so much. Just drive and merge. -- Melissa Breen
If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem. -- Lewis Hamilton
When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower. -- Edward Everett
But you have to learn to bend a little," "Or you'll brake." -Clarissa Fray -- Cassandra Clare
The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world -- Millie DeWitt
Why do you need to brake? Find your place, just be confident, and drive into it. -- Melissa Breen
The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle. -- Bob Varsha
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Future is a car with brake failure; it is moving towards us at a very high speed. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake -- Langston Hughes
I shave my face like a car. I speed through car washes, but I brake for love. -- Jarod Kintz
Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid. -- George Carlin
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination. -- Julian Simon
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable. -- Harold MacMillan
In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter) -- Ken Wilber
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. -- Semir Zeki
My friend, when you always say "God is in control", while you have your feet on the brake pad, you are not going anywhere! Wise up! -- Israelmore Ayivor
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas. -- N. T. Wright
I like games, board games, mind games and games of life. Just don't play games with my heart because you won't like the way I brake the rules. -- Evelyn Leilou Colon
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. -- Alexander Pope
Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it. -- John Donne
We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator. -- David Cameron
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. -- Daniel Boone

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