Colin McRae (Colin Steele McRae) Quotes

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

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• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Universe
  • Sun
  • Follow

• I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Long
  • School
  • Mother

• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nobody
  • Everybody
  • He

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

  

  Ovid
  • U.S.
  • Striving
  • Forbidden

• I am an inventor of music.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Inventor

• Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Play

• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Never
  • Will
  • Practical

• The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Moments
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Life
  • Important
  • Failure

• Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Spiritual
  • Red
  • Blue

• There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Funny
  • Connection
  • Scary

• I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

  

  David Friedman
  • Children

• I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Travel

• It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.

  

  Matt Emmons
  • People
  • Nice
  • Random

• They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

  

  Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
  • Good
  • Song
  • Hood

• For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Time
  • Entrepreneur

• Our long-standing philosophy that our diverse suppliers must provide high-quality goods and services at competitive prices adds great value to our business.

  

  Debra L. Reed
  • Great
  • Long
  • Business

• The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • History
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got her over the top.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • May
  • She
  • Forget

• When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Car

• Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

  

  Colin McRae
  • Car
  • Drivers