Quotes About Detour

My first job was television. I got to where I wanted to go, but through a little bit of a detour. When I first started working in film and television, I hated myself - I didn't like what I was doing at all. All I could think of was, 'I'm overacting. Be smaller.' I started to do that, but that was not fun. I felt confined doing film and TV.

And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a dead end. Where are we going? I asked. I don't know he said just driving. But this road doesn't go anywhere I told him. That doesn't matter. What does? I asked, after a little while. Just that we're on it, dude. He said.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

Umwege erweitern die Ortskenntnis

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.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

This detour was only supposed to be temporary. I never dreamed I'd find forever here.

If you allow your frustration to turn into disgust and disdain for people you've left behind, you'll end up on a dangerous detour. Instead of becoming more like Jesus, you'll become more like his archenemies, the Pharisees of old, looking down on others, confident in your own righteousness.

People are messy. Relationships aren't linear. They knock you on your ass. Make you detour, reverse, change focus. You can't be perfect unless you're alone, and then guess what? You're alone. So you're still not perfect.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of 'What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the characters? What is the conversation here?' My sense of pacing is very filmlike, it's not musical.

I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.

Until, that is, a tree stopped me in my path.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.

Women. They're irresistible that's for sure, and they love to remind us that they are the keepers of our desires.

By giving priority to the state, Hegel claims that we are public individuals before we are private ones. Our investment in the public sphere is not an option - like the decision to vote or not - but the basis for our private existence. The priority of the state indicates that one must go through the detour of the public in order to be a private individual.