Quotes About Transport

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I like to leisurely cruise around town on a longboard.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

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

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

Travel requires a great deal of energy - whether you go by car, by bus, by train or plane. We'll likely be using hydrogen as our main energy for transport.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

I don't own a car.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.

He didn't want to talk to Pol. Pol would want him to go somewhere on the back of a horse.

My Great-Grandma G, an avid reader, always said "a good book can take you anywhere you want to go". No need for passports, spending money, or travel insurance. Where are you off to next?

A few minutes later they were ensconced in his landau, the canopy pulled up tight.

It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for transport.

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us a thousand miles and all the years we have lived.

Les parfums sont de puissants magiciens pouvant vous transporter au travers des années que vous avez vécues.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.