#rake

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. ↗

— Paul Newman

#down #first #first law #law #newman

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#best #betrayed #choice #false #husband

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. ↗

— Steven Wright

#accelerator #behind #brake #gas #gone

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#electric #good #great #him #how

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #identities #mix #noah #rick

The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#coming #drake #get #good #good scripts

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#drake #eddie #edgy #foolish #funny

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#drake #folk #folk singer #getting #gorgeous

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#also #brake #closed #computer #download

Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady. -'Rhett ↗

— Rowena Cherry

#humor #racy #romance #rules-for-a-rake #sperm-donor