Quotes About Transport

Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.

Under the vaulted arch of its white iron-and-glass roof it was as if IKEA had been hired to refit St. Pancras station. If Thomas the Tank Engine had been Swedish, his living room would have looked just the same.

A society sufficiently sophisticated to produce the internal combustion engine has not had the sophistication to develop cheap and efficient public transport?' 'Yes, boss... it's true. There's hardly any buses, the trains are hopelessly underfunded, and hence the entire population is stuck in traffic

I did not want to risk travel delays, so I took the train the evening before.

Greece should really be a shipping hub for the world it really should be a shipping hub for the entire world not just for Europe.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Back in the hard sunlight, the big open-air bus carried them

Just as it is fire's nature to burn, it is meditation's nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.

It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.

We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects of ourselves reflected back.

If I can transport audiences for the three or four hours they're at the opera, to make them forget all of their worries, the bills they have to pay and all that, then I've done my job. That, for me, is very gratifying.

With music, I'm transported to a place that radiates positive frequencies and immediately eases my worries.

The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

The worst thing about touring is the travel.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

les quatre activités les plus fréquemment compromises au début de la maladie d'Alzheimer sont l'usage sécuritaire des médicaments, l'emploi efficace des transports, l'utilisation régulière du téléphone ou d'un autre moyen de communication et la gestion responsable de ses finances.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Books are a time machine.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport

Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self.