Quotes About Transport

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

More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

In Delhi, I have never taken an auto, while in Mumbai, if there is an auto strike, my life will come to a full stop.

How do you keep a mattress on the roof of your car from flying?" "Yeah, well, I don't know how many people know it, but a lot of people have learned that putting your arm up there to hold the mattress is not going to work.

On average it took 22 days for news to travel between New York City and Charleston; and 26 days to reach Savannah.

Interstellar transport for surplus people presents an musing perspective. Since the ships would take generations to reach most stars, the only people who could be transported would be those willing to exercise strict birth control. Population explosions on space ships would be disastrous. Thus we would have to export our responsible people, leaving the irresponsible at home on Earth to breed.

I remember one party when we seemed to be absolutely stranded. Perhaps that was symbolic, Mr Turner. I mean everyone else gone and just Tusker and me, peering out into the dark waiting for transport that never turned up.

The train was sunlit and emptier.

A train journey is travel; everything else—planes especially—is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands.—GRB

But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

walkie-talkie in the floorboard, with its Talk button taped

carriages coming along the street

Victory is the beautiful, bright-coloured flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. Yet even the military student, in his zeal to master the fascinating combinations of the actual conflict, often forgets the far more intricate complications of supply.

El hecho de escoger la duda como filosofía de vida es como elegir la inmovilidad como forma de transporte.

Scegliere il dubbio come filosofia di vita equivale ad eleggere l'immobilità a proprio mezzo di trasporto.

Tomei um táxi que me deixaria em casa, e refleti sem amargura: muita coisa inútil na vida da gente serve como esse táxi: para nos transportar de um ponto útil a outro. E eu nem quis conversar com o chofer.

You didn't have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin.

My other car is a Zamboni.

What did he do? Channel Vincent Price and transport the Tower of London'to the Hollywood Hills?

I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

For summer soirees, I recommend being bold. Add a flavorful herb or a fresh, exotic fruit or vegetable to transport your guests to another place.