Quotes About Detour

The man who goes quickly by the direct road passes the man who strays from the path.

Frida is a detour and a distraction. It was her genius as an artist, and her neurotic narcissism, to turn her whole self into art—her love, her suffering, her accident-prone life—and in the process make herself an icon, for the Mexican tradition is full of icons, especially of madonnas.

Reasoning that I would rather take a detour for hours on a bad road than sit in my car in a traffic jam, I thanked him and drove away, past the parked cars and the children and the protesting teachers, through the bowl of a green valley and into the hills that looked rockier and drier in the distance.

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.

Don't follow me, I'm lost.

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

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.

There is no use of running when you are on the wrong way.

Queerness offers the promise of failure as a way of life...but it is up to us whether we choose to make good on that promise in a way that makes a detour around the usual markers of accomplishment and satisfaction.

Queerness offers the promise of failure as a way of life...but it is up to us whether we choose to make good on that promise in a way that makes a detour around the usual markers of accomplishment and satisfaction" (The Queer Art of Failure, "Ending, Fleeing, Surviving")

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

A mistake should be your teacher, not your attacker. A mistake is a lesson, not a loss. It is a temporary, necessary detour, not a dead end.

I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice Tea and I'm starting to look for the next closest rest stop.--On Settling down with a girl.

Trump, in Bannon's view, was a chapter, or even a detour, in the Trump revolution, which had always been about weakness in the two major parties. The Trump presidency - however long it lasted - had created the opening that would provide the true outsiders their opportunity. Trump was just the beginning.

Like all hopelessly self-absorbed rock stars he detoured away from moral considerations and believed what he and his fans wanted.

Those with a traditional view of sexual morality-not all of them traditionally religious, by any means-denounce homosexuality as an impermissible detour from the natural course of sexuality. Indeed, the ancient notion of "the abominable and detestable crime against nature" has retained much of its emotional force, and may even be said to have provided the inner logic behind the Supreme Court's decision to uphold state antisodomy statutes.