Rear Quotes

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The best view of government is seen on a rear view mirror as one is driving away from it.

- Ronald Reagan

(On motorcycling in India) I almost died. I jammed on the brakes, skidded and nearly slammed into it. I was laughing, thinking `This is the way I`ll be remembered: rear-ending a cow`.

- Adrien Brody

You can hang it from your rear view mirror and you get to park in the handicapped spaces.

- Brian Taylor

(On the film Sharky`s Machine (1981)): Author Sidney Sheldon first mentioned William Diehl`s novel Sharky`s Machine to me at a party. Soon afterward Clint Eastwood sent me a copy of the same best-selling book with a note saying: "This is Dirty Harry in Atlanta!" Discovering it combined elements of two of my favorite movies, Laura (1944) and Rear Window (1954), I persuaded newly formed partners Orion Pictures and Warner Brothers to acquire the screen rights for me. The kind of film Robert Aldrich would`ve been great at, I knew from the get-go I had to direct. Granted complete creative control, for me only the third time this had happened, I assembled my cast. The film had one of the best crews I`ve ever worked with. Let me just say this about Charles Durning. He may be America`s finest working actor today. Right down to the soundtrack, a jazz fiend, I called my own list of all-stars. The picture opened at the end of the year to critical reviews that were beyond my expectations. But when even the New York Time`s Vincent Canby also got it, I was bowled over. The reviews made me a hot director.

- Burt Reynolds

There were times when I`d go, `This outfit would look so badass with stilettos.` You wanted those 4-inch heels, those wrappy, strappy, show-off-your pedicure shoes, but you couldn`t do it. At the beginning of the scene it would have been fine because I`m just hanging out with the dude. But the next thing you know, you`re kicking the dude`s rear, so you had to make sure you had the right shoes on.

- Cameron Diaz

(on his post-accident role in Rear Window (1998) (TV)) I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effectively enough to tell the story. But I was surprised to find that if I really concentrated and just let the thoughts happen, that they would read on my face.

- Christopher Reeve

A wheel bearing went in the rear suspension, which I think is the same problem as Tony (Kanaan). It almost put me into the wall and almost put Tony in the wall as well. It`s unfortunate and the ArcaEx team deserves better. It`s the same problem we had at Nashville.

- Dario Franchitti

It`s easier to be myself here. I can go out wearing whatever the hell I want, no matter how ridiculous it looks. If I do that in America, people look at me like I`m insane. There are aspects of the British press which are incredibly intrusive, but then you`ll go to a premiere and someone will ask permission to take a photo, and when you say, "That`s enough", they`ll back off. In the States, you go to a restaurant and there are people lined up outside with 8x10s of you. Or they just follow you with a video camera. I had someone deliberately rear-end my car a few years ago in L.A., and there was a video camera: they were videoing my reaction. Luckily, I was in a good mood.

- Gillian Anderson

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

- Jennifer Lopez

Never comment on a woman`s rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

- Tim Allen

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

- Reba McEntire

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

- Dudley Moore

That`s called a rear-end whupping.

- David Bennett

(on his typecasting as The Caped Crusader) It was inescapable. I`d just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur would rear up and say, "But the audience will think of him as Batman." It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall.

- Adam West

(Brian Vickers was livid Saturday after he got black flagged for passing a car on the left during a late restart in the Busch race. Vickers seemed to have a half-decent excuse: The car in front of him missed a shift and it was either pass him or rear-end him.) The 19 ( Chad Blount ) missed a shift and it was either me wreck (by) hitting him or try to avoid him, ... That`s racing. When somebody misses a shift it`s a basic maneuver -- you either wreck or be wrecked and we went low to miss him. I never passed him before the start/finish line. It`s the front bumper that counts and it was a bad call.

- Brian Vickers

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

- Richard Petty

I guess my day is coming, ... I tried real hard. I just got nailed in the rear end on the last lap and turned sideways. I didn`t expect it.

- Rusty Wallace

I wanted to get out of the car and whip his rear end. The kid needs to calm down a little bit. ... He`s really frustrated for some reason.

- Rusty Wallace

You don`t know how many times we`ve seen cars rear-ended. With the turning lane there it will improve safety and especially the sidewalks for the Wheaton North students.

- John Finn

For the series we are using a couple of horses, most of which have worked on Sea Biscuit. Mattie, Reno, Finder and Houdini, all of which have extraordinary talents. Bobby, their trainer has them so well trained and attentive, they hit their marks without anyone holding on to them. They can rear, lope and stop when asked. Bobby even had me train on his horse Houdini with no hands while he told him how fast and where to go. It was an incredible and liberating experience and I gained a lot of trust and confidence from it.

- Genevieve Padalecki

It has got a rear spoiler and exhausts on either side and it could have been lowered in some way.

- Paul Jennings

To get comfortable, she would squat down and rest her rear end on her crossed legs. They would yell at her to get her hands higher on the wall and it became a game.

- Michael Lambert

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

- Jack Adams

The moral effect of the thundering of one`s own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

- Fritz Kreisler

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.

- Fritz Kreisler

You touch me and I`ll kick you in the rear.

- Jimmy Piersall

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot

- James Thompson

(The first floor - the original ranch house - was dark and contained the entry, sitting room, and bedrooms (a master suite had been carved from the old kitchen and bath), while the airy top floor housed a large living room, kitchen, dining room, studio, and loft, and it opened onto a rear deck. It was a design layer cake that wasn`t all that appetizing.) When you walked in on the ground floor, you had no idea what was upstairs, ... It was two totally different houses.

- Gary Wolf

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

- Joel Osteen

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one`s own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

- Adam Harben

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

- Alan Cropsey

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

- Alan Merten

Breaks balance out. The sun don`t shine on the same ol` dog`s rear end every day.

- Alan Ponce

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

- Alan Sandals

I`ve found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

- Allan Brophy

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

- Andrew McCormick

I`m not a numbers guy. I`m just going to go out and grind my rear end off on every shot. If you focus on a number you think you have to shoot, that just puts more pressure on you and there`s already enough pressure in a major championship.

- Andrew Westphal

We just had a little problem with the chain that holds the droop on the right rear. NASCAR didn`t like it the way it was. It wasn`t a big deal. We were trying to fix it and we just didn`t have time.

- Angela Bozorth

It wasn`t going too bad today, until I crashed into a wall! Up to then I was running sixth, and the car felt okay. Later in the race I was struggling a little bit, but it was okay until the rear end went away, and it just literally caught me out because into the corner the back went and I got it back around, but I just ran out of road and hit wall.

- Ann Yerger

I felt a bump from the left rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a lot of fire. It was just a quick thud.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

I felt a bump in the left rear of the car, and the next thing I know, Ryan was up over me, there was fire, and we were in the wall.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

I felt a thud from my left rear. It was a quick thud and the next thing I knew, we were in the wall.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

I just felt a thump from the rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a lot of fire. It was quick thud and then the next thing you know we were in the wall. It was all behind me and people were moving around, so I can`t really say (what happened) until I see the video. I just felt a thump and a lot of fire in front of me.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

I just felt a thump from the rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a lot of fire. It was a quick thud and then the next thing you know we were in the wall.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

We had to replace a rear shock on the car, ... The car was getting faster as qualifying went on but we just ran out of time.

- Barbara Burch