Anthony Foxx Quotes

The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

Anthony Foxx

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• I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Great
  • English

• Our lives teach us who we are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Teach
  • Lives
  • U.S.

• The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Government
  • Period

• When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Growth
  • Successful
  • Now

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Feeling
  • Need
  • Project

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Women
  • Art

• I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Dark

• As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Hugging

• I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Live
  • Syria

• I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great – once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Surprised

• Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Failure

• Love and despair go hand in hand.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Love
  • Hand
  • For Her

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Rules

• The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Insurance
  • Boxes
  • Box

• 'Why do I love him so much, mamma? Why do I feel so sorry for him?' she went on in a quivering voice, and her eyes glistened with tears. 'Who is he? What is he like? As light as a little feather, as a little crumb, but I love him; I love him like a real person. Here he can do nothing, he can't talk, and yet I know what he wants with his little eyes.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Real
  • Why
  • She

• The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Language
  • Photography
  • Aesthetic

• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Long
  • May

• Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity.

  

  Jo Cox
  • Power
  • Growth
  • Commitment

• You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Night
  • Stars
  • Laughing

• The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

  

  Anthony Foxx