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 find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• 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

• I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• 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 don't think we've ever known what the hell's going on when we do Tap shows. It's possible the audience are effectively getting to see more of the movie when we play. You know, they know the songs, so anything we do onstage, whether we're meaning to or not, is an extension of the film. Other than that, I wouldn't understand what's going on.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Movie

• We'll see. If I don't get an answer before this evening, I'll take 25 pills and gently fall asleep into another world.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Answer
  • Pills
  • Fall Asleep

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Tree
  • Garden
  • Autumn

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

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Waiting
  • Happen
  • Racing