Quotes of Highway - somelinesforyou

“ All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. ”

- Peter M. Leschak

“ Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. ”

- Brian Tracy

“ The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster… ”

- Rachel Carson

“ The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon… ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ If you had a national highway system set up on tolling you'd never get anywhere. ”

- Don Young

“ It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. ”

- Mike Royko

“ Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ The speedway ends at the cemetery. ”

- Unknown

“ Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. ”

- Bill Bryson

“ If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. ”

- Bob Golic

“ There's so much comedy on television. does that cause comedy in the streets? ”

- Dick Cavett

“ It's the superhighway to the gold. This causes negativity to go like sunlight causes darkness to go. ”

- David Lynch

“ I can say without hesitation that it is not, nor has it ever been, the intention of my company to turn the Information Superhighway into a toll road. ”

- Bill Gates

“ So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ Its okay to get jacked up and head out onto the highway, but I've been there and I can tell you that the fast lane is littered with countless smoldering wrecks. ”

- H.S. Thompson

“ It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. ”

- Martin Cruz Smith

“ The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. ”

- James Joseph Sylvester

“ I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway. ”

- Joan Benoit Samuelson

“ Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. ”

- Earl Wilson

“ Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ”

- Charles Kuralt

“ That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations. ”

- Charles Abrams

“ I used the term in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That's dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen. ”

- Nam June Paik

“ Congestion means lost time, squandered productivity, wasted gasoline, increased safety concerns, and air pollution. it's time to change. My vision is a transportation system that compliments the way Marylanders choose to live - a balance between mass transit and new highway construction. ”

- Robert. L. Ehrlich

“ You can make these things for cheap. This one cost $35 million. You make $70 million on 'The Wedding Planner,' you're dancing in the streets. You make $70 million on 'Sahara' (which cost $130 million), you're not dancing in the streets. ”

- Matthew
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