Quotes About Journey

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn't say where it would lead me.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

I ran away from my home in Gwalior and bought myself a ticket to Delhi. That was the nearest metro, and the cheapest ticket was for Rs 74.

I first came to Mumbai by train, without a reserved ticket. I stood by the door and slept in the space next to the washroom. I know what struggle is.

I came to Mumbai to participate in a dance reality show and thought that could be my ticket to Bollywood. Gradually, I discovered that acting is what I am more passionate about and that passion has helped my boat sail.

Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home.

I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

I suspect my own journey to Brexit has closely followed that of Britain's. I had doubts, then I decided we should stay in, then I had very serious doubts as our island began to sink under a tide of regulations and our government lost control of the immigration system.

On 'Krit Wuz Here,' I had a record called 'Return Of 4eva' on it. And then that launched me into doing the actual 'Return Of 4eva' project, and 'Return Of 4eva' had a song called '4eva And A Day.' So it's like, all of my music has somehow tied into the entire story.

Life is not a playground of competition. If it was, we would be busy reaching the finish line.