Interstate Quotes - Page 2

• I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Needs, Littles, Limits

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• (It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions.

  Benedict Fitzgerald

  Dark, Age, Medical

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• If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.

  Trevor Nisbett

  Lonely, Home, Kids

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• Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Law, Happens

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

  Joel Garreau

  America, Forever, Dwight D Eisenhower

  Joel Garreau (2011). “Edge City: Life on the New Frontier”, p.14, Anchor

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• (knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger. Whoops-

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mother, Father, Knitting

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• i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.

  Charlaine Harris

  Tree, Vision, Eric

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.200, Penguin

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• Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun." ..."He's the Akron AWOL?!

  Neal Shusterman

  Gun, Dozen, November

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

  Steven Wright

  Hawaii, Highways

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Envy, Immigration

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• We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  New York, People, Priorities

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

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• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  Charles Kuralt

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Witty, Sex, Regret

  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 6 Oct 1980.

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• ...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Technology

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• At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Mafia, Church

  "The Presidential Papers (The Sixth Presidential Paper - A Kennedy Miscellany: An Impolite Interview)". Book by Norman Mailer, 1963.

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• That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.

  Dave Ramsey

  Hurt, Stupid, Mean

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.67, Penguin

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• Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Party, Government, Tea

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• You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational Life, Journey, Over You

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• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  Randy Wayne White

  Florida, Ideas, Labyrinth

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• Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney World, the Interstate Highways, suburbia, and an imperial military by other means than oil. We'll squander a lot of dwindling resources in the process.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Running, Military, Mean

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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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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• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Our World, Political, Degrees

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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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• The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.

  Anna Quindlen

  Soccer, Country, Children

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