It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

- Aleksandr Kuprin

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

- Chuck Close

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business.

- Do Won Chang

After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.

- Emayatzy Corinealdi

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

- Gordon Gee

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

- Jackson Pollock

I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.

- James Nesbitt

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

- Larry David

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

- Mark McKinnon

I drove my mum and dad mad.

- Nicola Sturgeon

I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they crocheted a sweater for a double-decker bus and drove it around.

- Noah Hawley

It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.

- Ted Deutch