Lanes Quotes

• The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.

  Monica Baldwin

  Fall, Healing, Autumn

  Monica Baldwin (1950). “I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent”

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• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Eye, Night

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.360, GENERAL PRESS

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• The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry

  John Jensen

  Life, Time, Work

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• By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

  Michael Neill

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Michael Neill (2006). “You Can Have What You Want”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

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• I love the fast lane.

  Eva Gabor

  Fast Lane

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• This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

  Terry Pratchett

  Traffic, Fast Lane

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.36, Random House

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• As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

  Gerard Butler

  Long, Trying, Angle

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• We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

  Rob Lowe

  Congratulations, Reminiscing, Attention

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• When you’re engaged in what you love to do, it’s like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.

  T. Harv Eker

  Time Flies, Up To You, May

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 12, 2010

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• You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

  Ella Maillart

  Boys, Climbing, Hiking

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• Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Giving, Literature, Hamas

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• I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Games

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Rain

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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• Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

  Ron White

  Trying, Death Penalty, States

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• These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

  Mel Brooks

  Men, Trying, Would Be

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• White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

  David Ginola

  White, Hart, Felt

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• The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

  Fred Allen

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Sports, Balls

  "How Watching Football Can Make You More Spiritual" by Suzanne Gerber, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2013.

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• Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

  Audrey Meadows

  People, Rooms, Meadows

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• I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.

  Sissy Spacek

  Baby, New York, Worry

  "Sissy Spacek Gets In The Bedroom" By Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2001.

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• To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Baseball, Athlete, Mph

  1989 Of the experience of facing fast bowlers. Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Memories, Drinking, Journey

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• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  R. D. Laing

  Inspirational, Creativity, People

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• That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Cutting, Space

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• A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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