Quotes About Transport

I ride a bicycle daily in London and have done for many years.

I don't have a car - I have a beautiful Pinarello bike.

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

It's not every day you see a bus with your own face on it.

The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.

Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.

Uscì quindi dalla casa del fuoco e si diresse per la strada notturna - era mezzanotte - verso la ferrovia sotterranea, dove il silenzioso convoglio ad aria compressa, scivolando come un'ombra dentro il suo budello bene oleato nelle viscere della terra, lo rigurgitò con uno sbuffo possente d'aria calda, sulla scala mobile dal pavimento color crema, che saliva verso la superficie, nella zona suburbana.

Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms—two shot-guns, a heavy rifle, and a light revolver-carbine—the thunderbolts of that pitiful Jupiter.

Tea was only a medium to transport honey

When you can sit down and produce a four-hundred-page manuscript that can transport a reader somewhere else for a spell, maybe I'll allow you to criticize.

traffic deaths.

Most long-distance travel and commerce went by water, which explains why most cities were seaports—Cincinnati on the Ohio River and St. Louis on the Mississippi being notable exceptions. To transport a ton of goods by wagon to a port city from thirty miles inland typically cost nine dollars in 1815; for the same price the goods could be shipped three thousand miles across the ocean.

Mais le plus beau voyage dans le temps que je connaisse c'est celui que procure la lecture. On vous croit dans cette pièce alors que vous vagabondez dans d'autres siècles. Et cela sans faire le moindre bruit.

We do not go somewhere in a car, but arrive somewhere in a car. Automobiles do not make travel possible, but make it possible for us to move locations without traveling.

back there or maybe even taken an actual shit, and then tried to cover it up with a bunch of coconut air freshener that smelled like suntan lotion. The seats were greasy, and patched with duct tape, and the shocks were nearly gone. Whenever we struck a

brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets; tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because their backs would snap instantly, but the Vogons sat on them anyway.

elegant gazelle-like creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because their backs would snap instantly, but the Vogons sat on them anyway.

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one.

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.

I felt like I was walking on an airport's rubber conveyor belt.

Staten Island ferry

The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The

En voiture, Monsieur,' said the Wagon Lit conductor.

I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.