Quotes About Transport

One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.

You're Transport.' " She shrugged. "I'm neither. But even so, I was tripled. I know about that." "Customs don't triple," he said. "Two guys and myself. If I ever do it again it'll be with a girl and a guy. For me that would be easier

Ship," he said absently. "A boat is something you haul aboard a ship.

The Soviet period was a disaster, not least because supply lines were so long and so corrupt that little was left by the time goods reached the Russian Far East except things nobody wanted, such as the fabled ten thousand left-foot gumboots. (On that occasion, transport planning failed to the extent that the 10,000 left boots went in the opposite direction to the same number of right boots, heading nobody knew where).

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

What she tells the Japanese is this lost opportunity which has made her what she is. The story she tells of this lost opportunity literally transports her outside herself and carries her toward this new man. To give oneself, body and soul, that's it.

the AirCav now rode to battle on helicopters, usually Hueys,85 which could carry a full squad; or on the newer, giant twin-engine Chinooks

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

Though you add carriage to carriage, you will not be carried more comfortably.

This touch of luxury was typical of the Base, though it was sometimes hard to explain its necessity to the folk back on Earth. Every man and woman in Clavius had cost a hundred thousand dollars in training and transport and housing; it was worth a little extra to maintain their peace of mind. This was not art for art's sake, but art for the sake of sanity.

Of the latter, they cut each truck in two, shipped them into the secret field in two C-47 transports, then welded them together in the field. It was a model of American ingenuity, and by midsummer, the strip was up and working.

the erection of Djoser's pyramid provided pharaoh's subjects with visible evidence of the power of the transport and supply systems that they had built over the previous half-millennium and which were the very essence of the state.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.

rolled it over to the side of the pickup.

Leggere è viaggiare senza la seccatura dei bagagli.

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

takes us directly to visceral memories, transporting us to a time and place instantly.

For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.