Road Quotes

• As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I've loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It's both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it's not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Bad
  • Lost

• Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Society
  • Travel
  • Baseball

• In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Road

• For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Time
  • Country
  • Band

• Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Road

• The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Business

• Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Road

• Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Support
  • Single
  • Road

• You put a car on the road which may be driving by the letter of the law, but compared to the surrounding road users, it's acting very conservatively. This can lead to situations where the autonomous car is a bit of a fish out of water.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • May
  • Law
  • Water

• It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Road
  • Picture
  • Down

• Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Important
  • True
  • Training

• Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Road
  • Chance
  • Baseball

• The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Road

• In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Strong

• Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Reading
  • Ignorance
  • Achievement

• We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

  

  Nelson DeMille
  • Road
  • Journey

• Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Life
  • Family
  • Character

• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Why
  • Think
  • Speak

• The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

  

  Scott Hamilton
  • Integrity
  • Honesty
  • Respected

• I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Today
  • Car
  • Pride

• The only thing here was a long gray ribbon of road, stretched like tape stuck by a toddler onto a rolling carpet of green hills under a huge arch of blue sky. This is Virginia. My Virginia, anyway.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Road
  • Toddler
  • Blue Sky

• I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Road

• The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Road

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