Quotes About Transport

You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

There is no Frigate like a book.

sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine...

That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people's lives an' places, but you could still set in your own chair by th'oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.

The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.

She closed her eyes an instant, and the vacuous routine of the life she had chosen stretched before her like a long white road without dip or turning: it was true she was to roll over it in a carriage instead of trudging it on foot, but sometimes the pedestrian enjoys the diversion of a short cut which is denied to those on wheels.

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

Water Metro is the first water transport system of its kind in India. The project will be implemented in a timely manner and the first phase will become a reality in March 2020.

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways. It is one of the most powerful ways of generating empathy that I know.

When you're hurting after a match, the last thing you want to do is get in a car or on a plane to get to the next city.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.

When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

I drive to clear my mind, like many people do. It's like, once you get in the car, whatever song you put on, it's so symbiotic. Your mood could change in a second.