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Quotes About Transport

The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.
~ Richard Attias
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.
~ Michael Koryta
When I was a little girl, there was this unbelievably cool female bus driver who'd work near us. I remember thinking I'd like to be her when I grew up.
~ Maxine Peake
The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.
~ Johnny Cash
Without ships, we cannot live.
~ Winston Churchill
Engineers have had to invent a new category for the commuter trains of Mumbai, whose Western Railway Line is the world's single most crowded public transport corridor. When fourteen or more people are standing per square meter - above 275 percent capacity - the train has attained "Super Dense Crush Load." In Mumbai, of course, this means people are actually sitting on the roof and hanging out the open doors.
~ Taras Grescoe
We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.
~ Niki Lauda
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.
~ James Walsh
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.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
~ John Steinbeck
I've got a lot of stuff in the bed of my truck.
~ Nicholas Sparks
In Mumbai, even Bollywood stars use autos when they are in a hurry.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
We have to get them into your boat quickly. Is there a dark room, a cave, anywhere dark we can take them?" Gary asked. He was already lifting Savannah into his arms. LaRue watched him carry her to his boat. "A hospital would be good." He made the suggestion in a soft, reasonable tone, as if he feared Gary had lost his mind.
~ Christine Feehan
It had surprised and impressed Tessia to learn that Everran and Avaria owned two wagons, one for their own everyday use and one kept for visits to the Royal Palace. Since the journey to the palace consisted of half the length of two streets, it seemed frivolous to own a vehicle especially for it.
~ Trudi Canavan
La locomotora sonó con un aire misterioso, como un lamento de compasión por el cargamento destinado a la desgracia.
~ Victor Frankl
Because books bring us to another time and place," the woman said as she handed over Eva's pens and accepted the francs Eva gave her. "And you look as if you need that.
~ Kristin Harmel
Because books bring us to another time and place," the
~ Kristin Harmel
Messenger boys zipped by on delivery bikes
~ L.J. Smith
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
~ La Monte Young
Are you trying to get run over by a cab?" "Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.
~ Cassandra Clare
Well, at least you know it works this time," she said, getting on behind him. "If we crash into the parking lot of a Key Food, I'll kill you, you know that?" "Don't be ridiculous," said Jace. "There are no parking lots on the Upper East Side. Why drive when you can get your groceries delivered?
~ Cassandra Clare
A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A house, a carriage, a balloon, a ship, a racing stallionocerosupine! Is that a thing? It sounds like it ought to be, so let's say it is!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Le transport rythmique, qui donne au vers son élan, est vide, il n'est que le transport de lui-même. Et c'est ce vide que la césure pense et tient en suspens, en tant que parole pure, pendant le bref instant où s'arrête le cheval de la poésie.
~ Giorgio Agamben