Evan Davis Quotes

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Evan Davis

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• First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Car

• Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Always
  • Car
  • Humble

• I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Car
  • Sports
  • Dreams

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Car

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • God
  • Day
  • Car

• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Health
  • Car

• Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Car
  • Balance

• You ride in a limousine the first time, it’s a big thrill but after that it’s just a stupid car.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • Time
  • Car
  • Stupid

• I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Cool

• I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Car

• Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • She
  • Education
  • Serious

• Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

  

  Marc Davis
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Life
  • Music
  • Girl

• I have a guy who does my hair. He's a car nut. And he was taking motorcycle lessons. And, what was my point?

  

  Fred Willard
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Car

• Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Up
  • Car
  • Road

• Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • Painting
  • Color

• I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Country
  • Japanese

• So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • Travel
  • See

• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Circumstances
  • Others
  • Tool

• Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Car
  • Plow