Transportation Quotes

• The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Sports, Giving

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• I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

  Booth Tarkington

  Spiritual, Men, Civilization

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.161, Booklassic

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• If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

  Robin Ince

  Machines, Matter, Royal

  "O come all ye non-faithful, and rejoice in science" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2009.

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• Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

  Lewis Mumford

  Travel, Mean, Cooking

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• The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Car

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 217

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• Mr. Trump wants to turn the U.S. economy into the kind of real estate development that has made him so rich in New York. It will make his fellow developers rich, and it will make the banks that finance this infrastructure rich, but the people are going to have to pay for it in a much higher cost for transportation, much higher cost for all the infrastructure that he’s proposing. You could call Trump's plan "public investment to create private profit". That's really his plan in a summary.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, People, Kind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Thinking, Cities, Electrical Power

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• The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

  William Langewiesche

  Mean, Mastery, Stories

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• Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

  Tim Bishop

  Winning, Spending, Win Win

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• Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.

  Matt Groening

  Jerk, Public Transportation

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• What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

  John Murphy

  Unique, Chains, Function

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• We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

  Colleen Barrett

  Airline, Service Business, Happens

  Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett, David Russo, David Ross, Richard Templar (2012). “Building Better Business Teams: Proven Strategies that Get the Best from Your People (Collection)”, p.89, FT Press

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• Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

  Steve Kroft

  Eight, Bridges, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

  Harry Bruno

  Teenage, War, School

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• Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Simple, Car, Needs

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dania Ramirez Talk PREMIUM RUSH, DON JON’S ADDICTION, Hit Record and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 21, 2012.

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• To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

  Yann Martel

  Life, Philosophy, Mean

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.51, Canongate Books

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• Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

  John Mica

  Country, Airports, Israel

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• We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

  Fred Thompson

  Real, Political Differences, Air

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• For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Memories, Reading

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• Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Country, Goal, Progress

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• The TMS is evolving into a logistics platform that can handle all nodes, all geographies and all transportation nodes. It's already talking to other applications in the supply chain, like warehouse management, order management and ERP systems. By adding underlying algorithms, a TMS can now understand the relationship between the cost of inventory and the cost of transportation and come up with an optimal solution to answer those questions.

  John Murphy

  Order, Talking, Cost

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• When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Fall, Writing, Rome

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• I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

  Corrine Brown

  Iraq, America, Important

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• If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.

  Alan Colmes

  Party, Guy, Police

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• There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

  Colin Fletcher

  Cutting, Journey, Iron

  Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf

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