Quotes About Cul-de-sac

Steve doesn't work here anymore." Madeline sat in the cul-de-sac, trying to absorb the words she'd just heard. "I haven't seen Steve since he was laid off. That was at the beginning of September. About six months ago.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.

She also was used to people who couldn't tell a story for anything, who thought the beginning went about as far back as Genesis, and that every tangential thought, every narrative cul de sac, must be explored en route.

brutal mass murder had taken place in that white house on the cul-de-sac before us. The Daley family of Omaha—Calvin, Bea, Ross, Sharon, and Janet—were found dead in their home two nights before Christmas.

Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

Getting trapped in narrow cul-de-sac specializations and "clubs" whose membership is open only to those who congratulate and fund each other is an occupational hazard in modern science

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.