Quotes About Transport

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.

People ask why God allows suffering. You could just as well ask the Minister of Transport why he allows accidents on Britain's roads.

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

A lot of people who can afford a vehicle are deciding against owning one. They just need access to transport. So, our job is to offer wider choices to consumers with more innovative models.

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

I've never understood why the knowledge training and rigorous testing of London cabbies isn't rolled out all over the U.K.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

This set him up to extract maximum advantage from both the railroads and pipelines so long as these two means of transport coexisted in the oil business.

He's got one passenger aboard–a girl." "A girl?" repeated Dave, staring somewhat mystified at the approaching vehicle. "Yes." "That's queerer still," remarked the young aviator.

She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the pages turned moldy. She read on trains and on buses, which often made her late as she was forever missing her stop.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

Time is relative, said Heraclitus a long time ago, and distance a function of velocity. Since the ultimate goal of transport technology is the annihilation of space, the compression of all Being into one pure point, it follows that six-packs help. Speed is the ultimate drug and rockets run on alcohol.

I felt as if I could ride the bus through eternity and be happy.

Let the train take the strain.

Work to ride and ride to work.

to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.

Night buses serve not only the leisure economy- pubs, bars, clubs, theatres and concerts- but also hundreds of thousands of night workers.

I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.

I flew an H3 Sea King. The most famous Sea King is Marine One.

You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.

London's night economy is huge and it couldn't function without London's night buses.