Quotes About Journey

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

The very first film, documentary that I made, was called 'The First Year.' It was 11 years ago and I followed these five novice teachers. I was actually with them on their first day of school and followed them for their first year.

It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

At 23, I know I'm nowhere close to where I want to be and where I need to be and where I'm going to be.

Building new nuclear is something that is going to take a lot of commitment, not only from our company but from the communities we serve. It is a five-to-seven-year journey to build one, and they are expensive.