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Quotes About Directions

So, Byrne, did you and Christabel get lost on the way down? Perhaps we should send you a floor plan for next time. The drawing room is the one that doesn't have a bed.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
But perhaps it is too late for that. You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.
~ Margaret Atwood
Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.
~ Andy Borowitz
Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.
~ Alex Gaskarth
Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.
~ Meek Mill
For to be a woman is to have interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from the hub of a wheel.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To him it was a cinch, figuring out directions, but Willa seemed to be lacking that particular part of her brain. And the GPS on her phone was no help, because it didn't let her see more than two inches ahead; and anyhow she hated driving, and she especially hated driving
~ Anne Tyler
It is one of the most annoying aspects of conspiracy that it compels one to blunder about the streets at night. I got lost several times trying to find the house of Laeca, and it is always embarrassing to have to pound on doors and ask directions.
~ John Maddox Roberts
You know, on Earth, the cards had only four suits and each suit has only four face cards. But there are six important directions here in space.
~ Elizabeth Bear
By the elements, by the ten directions. I have not forgotten. My name is Jacob Dust, and I have not forgotten.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Will, have you been paying attention to the number of times we had to go one passage farther than the first left? I've been trying to. Why? This place is really getting to me. I don't like the idea of spending the rest of my life down here. Will sighed. Relax, Sarah. Just lie down and go to sleep. Humor me and tell me how many times. Okay. Three. We've hit three dead ends. It's four, Will. I knew that. I was just checking to see if you were on your toes.
~ Gary Paulsen
now we have come, as some poet aptly puts it, to the place where men are pulled apart by their destinations.
~ Gene Wolfe
It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.
~ Jay DeMarcus
It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics - for instance, in framing future directions of research - which means that I have to watch what I say more carefully now!
~ Terence Tao
Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.
~ Judd Hirsch
child with ADHD may not seem to listen when spoken to or follow directions, may be reluctant to engage in tasks that are boring or effortful, may be distracted easily, fidget, leave his or her seat when sitting is expected, have difficulty waiting his or her turn, interrupt others, and talk excessively.
~ Sally Ozonoff
Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
~ Harrison Ford
Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
~ Gregory Maguire
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
~ Jennifer Granholm
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
~ Banksy
The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. Half a mile. Fifty yards. Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say Thirty-six C. Or Let's try it in the next size up. But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.
~ Marian Keyes
Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions
~ Sinclair Lewis
Dreams are the directions to the rest of your life!
~ Jim Atkinson
He was managing everything by himself and being pulled in too many directions.
~ John T. Spike