Lanes Quotes - Page 9

• If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'

  Chris Rock

  Basketball, Crazy, Years

  "New York Magazine Theater Critic Scott Brown Live-Blogs the Tonys". www.vulture.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account.... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures?

  B. C. Forbes

  Gratitude, Mean, Opportunity

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• Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

  Robert Payne

  Country, Blessing, Men

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  Dream, Dark, Sky

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• Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Two, Ashes

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.200, Dell

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• Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile. "Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it." "Jealous?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Jealous, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Faefever”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

  Haruki Murakami

  Acceptance, Winning, Highways

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• It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.

  John Waters

  Fun, Moon, Air

  John Waters (1986). “Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters”, Vintage

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• There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Swimming, Water

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• Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Cutting, Player

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• Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Motivation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

  Robert Burns

  Art, Pain, Philosophical

  Robert Burns (2009). “The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns”, p.48, Princeton University Press

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• Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!

  Jim Cornette

  Sweet, Wrestling, Men

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• Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

  Iceberg Slim

  Appreciate, Hip Hop, Culture

  Meraki Mag Interview, www.merakiafrica.com. January 27, 2014.

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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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• What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.

  Rob Ford

  Heart, Swimming, Sharks

  Remarks on cyclist, bicycling.com, May 3, 2012.

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• I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  People, Top Gear, Poor

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• When everything is coming your way, youre probably in the wrong lane.

  Tom Snyder

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

  Russell Simmons

  Enough, Never Change, Resilient

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2017

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• The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

  Steve Novick

  Running, People, Broadway

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• Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Philosophy, Two, Egypt

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• I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Highways

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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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• The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Thinking, Next

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• Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.

  Johnny Mercer

  Lonely, Crazy, Heart

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