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Quotes About Detour

Actually, I wouldn't attack Kant after all, I could avoid that, I would just have to make an invisible detour when I came to the problem of Space and Time [...]
~ Knut Hamsun
All the highway is good for is to tell you to keep moving, there's nothing to see. That's for idiots who want to go as fast as possible from one point to another. We're not doing geometry here, we're traveling. Find me. some pretty little roads that show us all there is to see.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.
~ Robert Brault
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.
~ Jason Schwartzman
It's like you're traveling in a different direction to the rest of us.
~ Robert Galbraith
Either way Reacher figured he might as well find out. He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.
~ Lee Child
They'd jumped into his car and sped off onto the motorway, heading in the wrong direction for ten minutes before they even noticed.
~ Anna Smith
Je rebrousse chemin, un détour assez long pour reprendre le chemin correct (mais j'étais capable de me rappeler où commençait l'erreur de route). Le bon chemin est surplombé par la voie ferrée.
~ Annie Ernaux
I always say 'Knocked Up' opened the doors, and 'Hangover' just burst it wide open. To this day, it's still surreal. And my wife's a doctor. All our friends are doctors - our close friends. And it's just that I have an odd job now. I think I'm like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.
~ Ken Jeong
The girl laughs. It's a harsh sound. "Lady, if you're looking for the suburbs, you already made like, four wrong turns.
~ Lisa Gardner
make the drive, skirting the mesa
~ Louis L'Amour
God's calling is still on your life; the assignment He has for you didn't get canceled because you took a detour. He's still going to honor you. You're still going to see dreams come to pass.
~ Joel Osteen
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
~ Edward Albee
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
~ Edward Albee
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
~ Edward Albee
It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
~ Edward Albee
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
~ Anonymous
Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.
~ Anonymous
I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
~ Sarah Dessen
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Then he turned and headed straight for home, but he took the long way, around the world.
~ Fritz Leiber