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Quotes About Transit

I just don't like travelling very much.
~ Jo Brand
Our rural communities are the heart of our state and too often lack equitable access to housing, transit, and economic opportunity, so I'm deeply committed to working in Washington to reverse that trend in Georgia.
~ Raphael Warnock
For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
the whaleman is wrapped by influences all tending to make his fancy pregnant with many a mighty birth. No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies
~ Herman Melville
We are building a truly integrated, efficient, and modern transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Commuters deserve nothing less than the full support of our next federal government.
~ Caroline Mulroney
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~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.
~ Naomi Klein
I never quite know how to fill that anxious, semi-wasted time before a midday flight home.
~ Megan Abbott
You want Interpol statistics? Three quarters of stolen art end up transited through a minimum of three countries, exchanged for goods including arms and gold. Recently, someone traded art for a restaurant chain in Slovakia." A means to an end. A kind of currency.
~ Cara Black
a library is as much a portal as it is a place—it is a transit point, a passage.
~ Susan Orlean
In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place--it is a transit point, a passage.
~ Susan Orlean
one can be easily substituted for the other.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Everyone's just passin' through Ohio to get to somewhere else
~ Tracy Chevalier
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
~ George Steiner
The grove in the temperate rain forest," it said, or as near as a crow could come to pronouncing those words, and then beat air and took off, rising toward the rafters but then banking hard down the slanted tube that would take it back into the transit.
~ Neal Stephenson
I find airports to be purgatorial in many ways. I mean, even from the basics of the design: you know, this sort of - this muted gray and the fluorescent lights.
~ Jonathan Miles
day after tomorrow, Kattan is scheduled to fly from Granada to Washington, DC, via Barcelona and New York.
~ Kyle Mills
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
~ Lakhdar Brahimi
Nelson's body was pickled in brandy, which was replaced with wine at Gibraltar, and brought back to England, amid macabre speculation that the Admiral's crew had drunk the embalming brandy in transit.
~ Catharine Arnold
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
~ Noam Chomsky
de esos vagones de trocha angosta que usaban los Ferrocarriles del Estado para viajes cortos, como ella solía recordarlos, entre La Serena y Vicuña, un camino con cuestas empinadas y túneles que oscurecían el carro por apenas segundos. Los
~ Teresa Calderón
There's no point being at the airport longer than needed.
~ Gillian Tans
Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair!
~ Virginia Woolf
Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
~ larson doug iii