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Quotes About Road

The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
It's just after three o'clock when we hit County Road 50. The temperature has swelled past ninety and the sun scorches our backs as we swerve our bikes around pools of bubbling tar.
~ Julia Scheeres
Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field...
~ Julien Gracq
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
~ K. D. Lang
I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it on my iPhone.
~ Beth Hart
Sometimes motorists do irrational things.
~ Erik Prince
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wanted to be on the road. It's a lonely existence, but it is what it is.
~ Erik Griffin
California cars have no closer link to California climate impacts than do cars on the road in Japan or anywhere else in the world.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
Hydroxycut keeps me going while on tour. It's a grind on the road, and I'm excited to be joining the team.
~ Chris Lane
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~ Fred Klein
Along the wide straight road he pushed the car well over eighty miles an hour and kept the tachometre needle flickering just below the start of the red band.
~ Frederick Forsyth
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
~ French proverb
As the escort disappeared, their pent-up feelings found vent in a few hysterical tears from the Duchess, some bad language from Mother Shipton, and a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy. The philosophic Oakhurst alone remained silent. He listened calmly to Mother Shipton's desire to cut somebody's heart out, to the repeated statements of the Duchess that she would die in the road, and to the alarming oaths that seemed to be bumped out of Uncle Billy as he rode forward.
~ Bret Harte
How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.
~ Mary Ann Mobley
My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.
~ Nikki Glaser
I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.
~ Michel Gondry
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
~ Jim Hightower
Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
~ Blanche Lincoln
There was a lot of work that people don't know about that I did to establish my villain persona. There were a lot of miles on the road that went into it, thousands upon thousands of hours of writing on yellow pads while driving in my car with the dome light on.
~ Roddy Piper
Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.
~ John C. McGinley