Quotes About Transport

Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere—education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations—Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

The train began to give up its contents, now in ones and twos, now in a steady stream.

would be a two-hour-plus ride to

The invention of money coöperated with these factors by facilitating the accumulation, transport and transmission of property.

Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch him, not simply touch him but lift him and carry him away.

Losing yourself in a book is the best

looked like a shopping cart attached to its front.

I don't actually own a car.

On wings of song, my dearest,I will carry you off.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

A donkey is a very useful beast of burden.

I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.

A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming a rarity in Mongolia, where mechanized transport is gradually replacing traditional means.

When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.

Nasil and Owen transport organs for transplant these days—and deliver takeout. I hope they don't get those mixed up.

Grumman twin-engine Goose

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.