Steve McQueen (Terence Steven McQueen) Quotes

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

Steve McQueen

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• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Happen
  • Afterlife

• My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Day
  • Waiting

• That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Strategy
  • Racing

• If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Person

• I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Singing
  • Waiting
  • Wind

• Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Great
  • Job
  • Waiting

• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Go

• I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Done
  • Happen

• Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Waiting

• Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Waiting
  • Something
  • Happen

• If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Long
  • You
  • Happen

• I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Memories
  • Scared
  • Racing

• With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Waiting
  • Now
  • Presence

• Space is waiting for our love, as I am longing for you; go with me, travelling through space.. line in a poem of Klein himself

  

  Yves Klein
  • Space
  • Waiting

• I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Girl

• If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Work
  • God
  • Fall

• I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord. And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord. Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Life
  • Air
  • Waiting

• I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • Life
  • Live
  • Waiting

• I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen.

  

  Alfonso Herrera
  • Voice
  • Happen
  • Forward

• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Friends
  • True
  • Three

• I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Life
  • Control
  • Marriage

• Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Man
  • Tomorrow
  • Affairs

• When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Waiting
  • Happen
  • Racing