Freeways Quotes - Page 2

• Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.

  Kirk Cameron

  Believe, Going Away, Alarms

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• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  Oren Peli

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "'Paranormal Activity's' Oren Peli on Scares, Spielberg and 'The River's' Pricey Pilot (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

  Gib Lewis

  Distance, Texas, Long

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• Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Goal, Long

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Lonely, Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

  Gerry Spence

  Car, Loan, Drivers

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.

  Criss Jami

  Mean, Men, Civilization

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• Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

  Tom Waits

  Men, Holy Grail, Riding

  "Song: 'Cold Water' ('Mule Variations')". 1999.

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• After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Fire, Office, Woods

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• The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.

  Arthur Kroker

  Real, Mean, Lakes

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• I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.

  Luke Goss

  Crazy, Paris, Mountain

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• Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Car, Pedestrians, Exciting

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• There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway.

  Toni Braxton

  Want, Firsts, Problem

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• A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads, Low Bridge Ahead. Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, Got stuck, huh? The truck driver says, No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas.

  Bill Engvall

  Bridges, Hands, Car

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• I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.

  Doug Benson

  Waiting, Pick Me Up, Looks

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• Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim, the land of mist, grows in Wisconsin. Legend has it that when the tree falls, the universe will fall. Next Wednesday, the State Highway Commission comes through that empty pasture with a freeway.

  Harlan Ellison

  Fall, Roots, Land

  Harlan Ellison (1978). “Strange wine: fifteen new stories from the nightside of the world”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

  Jim Morrison

  Travel, Drama, Giving

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• I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow
  down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.

  George Deukmejian

  Thinking, Government, Growth

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• One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.

  Chris Carmack

  Thinking, Car, People

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, House

  "Here's Your Sign". Comedy album by Bill Engvall, 2004.

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• I remember one time I went to a party and I had to interview Reese Witherspoon. She was just in this movie "Freeway," it's like 1996. To prepare for the interview I went to meet her at this release party, and I end up getting in this fist fight with a guy. I'm not much of a fighter but I get in this fight and the press was all there and they saw me, and all of a sudden the next day in the paper was 'Simon Rex and his posse get in scuffle, and Simon crashes a bottle over a guy's head after smoking crack in the bathroom.' I saved the article forever.

  Simon Rex

  Party, Fighting, Next Day

  "From 'Dirt Nasty' To Rex: An Uncensored Interview With Celeb-Skewering Simon Rex". Interview with Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. July 13, 2009.

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• When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane."

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Funny, Humor, Saws

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• We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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