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Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with. -- Sung Kang
When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family. -- Sung Kang
Drift is the demon of democracy. -- Anthony Eden
Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me. -- David Brin
Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths. -- Richard Ellmann
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. -- Rudyard Kipling
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it. -- Nathalie Kelley
No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?' -- Sung Kang
I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.' -- Jason Fuchs
I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness. -- Sung Kang
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on. -- Alana Stewart
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. -- Albert Einstein
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. -- Susan Orlean
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. -- Warren Buffett
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. -- Roger Moore
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. -- Roy Orbison
Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking. -- Dennis Miller
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. -- Perry Como
I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is. -- Johnny Ramone
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. -- George W. Bush
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. -- George W. Bush
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. -- Lyn Nofziger
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. -- David Carson
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. -- James Cameron
In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year. -- Alana Stewart
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. -- Tony Campolo
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. -- Russell Brand
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. -- Samuel Beckett
If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.' -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Even the continents drift. -- George Will
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift. -- Gilles Deleuze
I think I drift toward sad love songs. -- Benmont Tench
Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift. -- Uma Thurman
I lay still and watch myself slowly drift apart... -- Devjeet Chawdhary
You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness. -- Leon Morris
Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma. -- Rob Bell
anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay. -- David Levithan
If the current is right, one can drift to success. -- Mason Cooley
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. -- Walt Whitman
There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days -- Iron & Wine
Music helps us drift away to places of tranquility, happiness, sadness, & imagination. -- April Mae Monterrosa
We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there. -- Andy Stanley
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. -- Robert Breault
Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. -- Dallas Willard
Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path. -- Benjamin Watson
YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT! -- Widad Akrawi
Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane! -- Charles G.D. Roberts
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. -- George Bernard Shaw
We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds. -- Rhys Bowen
I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world. -- Anne Rice
Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry. -- Gregg Boddy
Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind. -- Robert Jordan
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. -- James Dickey
Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am. -- Ricky Whittle
What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift. -- Alanis Morissette
Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain. -- Jim Rohn
Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by... -- Charles M. Schulz
If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view. -- Steve McCurry
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? -- Tom Stoppard
The ashes of the past drift away on the winds of the future. ~ Ryan Mark, Author -- Ryan Mark
Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift. -- Marlene Van Niekerk
We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time. -- C. J. Mahaney
I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention. -- Dolores Huerta
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. -- Charles Lyell
You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. -- Philip Pullman
People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on. -- Francis Schaeffer
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. -- Ogden Nash
. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History. -- Harry Blamires
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. -- Georg Trakl
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead -- Beck
She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion. -- Jess C. Scott
I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. -- Henry Rollins
Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity. -- Archibald Marwizi
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. -- Albert Einstein
I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. -- David Bowie
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. -- Richard Dawkins
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better. -- Stephen Leacock
The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves. -- Sara Teasdale
I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way... -- Keiichi Tsuchiya
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness? -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. -- Billy Collins
The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit. -- Alan Cohen
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift. -- Albert Einstein
Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again. -- Johnny Rich
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. -- Winston Churchill
In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) -- Edward Abbey
Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision. -- Dick Francis
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination. -- William George Jordan
If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket. -- Quentin Crisp
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. -- Barney Oliver
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. -- Barney Oliver
While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky. -- Cornel Wilde
Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away. -- E. L. Doctorow
Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing. -- Pittacus Lore
We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. -- D. A. Carson
Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent. -- Zygmunt Bauman
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. -- Norman Cousins
Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul. -- Sara Gruen
Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away. -- Dobie Gray
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. -- Bernard Ingham
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. -- Jane Hamilton
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent. -- David M. Raup
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. -- Isaac Barrow
It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly. -- Margaret Atwood
I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face. -- Ian Gillan
And there's been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. And that's something that we intend to fix - this year. -- Barack Obama
Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do. -- Michelle Branch
Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift. -- Haruki Murakami
We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. -- Nick Harkaway
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. -- Sherwood Anderson

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