Tom Petty on drive
Tom Petty112 quotes“I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.”
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
Tom PettyTom Petty If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
Tom PettyTom Petty If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
Tom PettyTom Petty Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
Tom PettyTom Petty You belong somewhere you feel free.
Tom PettyTom Petty I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
Tom PettyTom Petty I would never put my songs in a commercial.
Tom PettyTom Petty We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
Tom PettyTom Petty When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
Tom PettyTom Petty I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
Tom PettyTom Petty I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Tom PettyTom Petty Some grow young, some grow cold.
Tom PettyTom Petty I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
Tom PettyTom Petty The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
Tom PettyTom Petty Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
Tom PettyTom Petty I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
Angela DuckworthAngela Duckworth We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.
Francisco FrancoFrancisco Franco This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
Erica JongErica Jong In most states you can get a driver’s license when you’re sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller
