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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. -- Don McLean
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. -- William Butler Yeats
Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod. -- Graydon Carter
I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour. -- Richard Ayoade
I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals. -- Sheri L. Dew
I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business. -- Do Won Chang
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. -- W. C. Fields
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. -- Kenzaburo Oe
I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got. -- Sarah Parish
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. -- W. C. Fields
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. -- Sallust
I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs. -- Erica Cerra
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't. -- Peter Dinklage
I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast. -- Charlie Sheen
The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude. -- Henry Petroski
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town. -- Luke Harding
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. -- E. O. Wilson
We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. -- David Axelrod
Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.' -- Stacy Schiff
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast. -- Saint Ambrose
I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact. -- Satya Nadella
When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!' -- Si Robertson
One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan. -- Hugh Jackman
To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick. -- Snoop Dogg
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction. -- Janine di Giovanni
I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.' -- Nico
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield. -- Billy Collins
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. -- Rowan Atkinson
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud. -- Bob Uecker
It wasn't poverty that drove me on. -- Aleksandr Kuprin
Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties. -- Mark McKinnon
I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day. -- Kasey Kahne
An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out. -- Arthur Baer
The last time I actually drove a car myself was 1996. -- Hillary Clinton
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt. -- Rebecca
I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab. -- Larry David
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on. -- Jack London
If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do? -- Robert Goolrick
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. -- George Orwell
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. -- Chris Cleave
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. -- Gordon Gee
Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection. -- Rumi
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service. -- Barbara Castle
A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove. -- George Washington
I drove a bus down Sunset Boulevard once, and I didn't kill anyone. -- Sanjaya Malakar
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. -- Chuck Close
It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention. -- Janet Napolitano
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. -- Margaret Atwood
My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music -- Shreya Ghoshal
Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge -- J.R. Ward
He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'. -- Steven Morrissey
I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall. -- Bob Newhart
Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me. -- Jamal Lewis
Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me -- Jamal Lewis
What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things? -- Nenia Campbell
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. -- Jackson Pollock
As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot. -- Sam Snead
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age. -- Candace Parker
The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. --
Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore. -- Sheryl Crow
We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made. -- Richard Petty
I drove myself to the Emergency Room. That's a nice relaxing drive. "Noooo, after you. Merge-everybody merge." -- Brian Regan
I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me. -- Pete Sampras
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control. -- Criss Jami
I drove nice cars, I got a nice house. But now I'm steady missing you like a strikeout -- Drake
The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet. -- Ann Coulter
Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses. -- Paul Engle
I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican. -- Lee Trevino
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. -- Mark Twain
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black. -- Bruce Springsteen
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. -- Mason Cooley
With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see. -- David Alan Basche
I'm up at like 6 a.m. With my trainer, running up the hill you drove up to get here. -- Kim Kardashian
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy. -- Dominick Dunne
I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. -- Alain Prost
My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early. -- Jodie Foster
Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy. -- Amelia Warren Tyagi
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants. -- Wayne Pacelle
[Adolf Hitler] had stubborn ideas about clothes and didn't care how he looked and this drove [Eva Braun] up the wall. -- Gretl Braun
My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play. -- Jason Aldean
Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind. -- Herman Bavinck
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. -- Jacky Ickx
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. -- Glenn Frey
He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion. -- Paul Russell
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I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money. -- Harry Chapin
Whatever he did it drove you away and into my bed and don't you forget that!Tyler Walkers by Kyra Gates -- Kyra Gates
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending. -- Alex Berenson
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found. -- Jami Attenberg
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall. -- Li Shangyin
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity. -- Eve Arnold
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric. -- Alexandra Paul
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for. -- W. C. Fields
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.' -- Eve Arnold
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. -- Franz Grillparzer
My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay. -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Dracula, who said while they drove a wooden stake into his heart, Boy, I sure hope this is heartburn. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn't going. -- Warren Sapp
Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place. -- Dov Davidoff
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger. -- Nigel Mansell
Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
My mother drove back to the intersection. "Who are you dating?" "Don't ask," I said. I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman. -- Janet Evanovich
There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not." -- Ryan McGinley
If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat. -- Bob Cousy
I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky. -- Krista Allen
Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best. -- Hayley Wickenheiser
The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot. -- Nolan Bushnell
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps. -- Jesse Jackson
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
Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was... -- Steven Wright
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect. -- Bill Murray
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week. -- Karen Black
Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films. -- Richard LaGravenese

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