Highways Quotes - Page 11

• Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

  Bob Dylan

  Brother, Sleep, Journey

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Information, Use

  "The Road Ahead". Book by Book by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson, 1995.

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• Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

  Kenny Smith

  Jesus, Art, Philosophy

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• In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.
  Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.
  Feeling is frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Feelings, Mind, Pathways

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

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• Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Beautiful, States, Havens

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• There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Darkness, Vulnerable

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.35, Random House

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• Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Horse, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.10, Editora Dracaena

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• The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

  Cesar Pelli

  Rivers, Ambitious, Limits

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• Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Mobility, Politics

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• One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

  Zoroaster

  Heart, Meditation, Heaven

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• I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Adventure, Journey, Stories

  "Highway Diaries: Songs of the Kashmir valley echo in ‘Highway’" by Stacey Yount, bollyspice.com. December 9, 2013.

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• How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

  Dennis Miller

  Suicide, Animal

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• On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Change, Blue, Color

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from a wonder of nature to this sluggish canal on the wrong side of the tracks.

  Jonathan Raban

  Technology, Rivers, Track

  Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster

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• Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

  Jonathan Raban

  Distance, Reality, Scary

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• I initially wanted to be a teacher and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.

  Lou Gerstner

  Teacher, Bridges, Different

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

  Billy Gardell

  Florida, Years, Two

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• Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

  Gary Wright

  Pain, Sky, Today

  Song: Dreamweaver

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• I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

  Jackson Browne

  Running, White, Lines

  Song: Shaky Town, Album: Running on Empty, 1977

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• There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Long, Interesting

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.48, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

  Carl G. Fisher

  Science, Rocks, America

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• I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

  John Mellencamp

  Crazy, Needs, Hey

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• Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

  Elton John

  Musical, Turner

  Song: Midnight Creeper Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

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• Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

  Waylon Jennings

  Men, Order, Years

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• Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.

  James N. Frey

  Character, Writing, Interesting

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