Road Quotes

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Time, Poetry, Happy

For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.
Victoria Legrand

Change, Time, Good

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
Richard Schiff

Time, Sleep, Down

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
Charles C. Mann

Big, Whole, Europe

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
Charles C. Mann

Left, Side, Drive

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.
Gloria Naylor

Past, Around, Reason

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.
Geoff Downes

Idea, Actually, Took

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.
Mary Ann Mobley

Two, Full, Taking

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
Billy Strayhorn

Love, Wife, Subject

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
Barry Hannah

Wanted, Practice, Boy

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
Bryan Robson

Down, Trying, Made

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
John Tillotson

I absolutely love the fact that they are looking out for me and it's not really even just Charles and Dave. Out on the road, I'm one of very few girls out here. There's a lot of pseudo big brothers who are keeping an eye out on me.
Hillary Scott

Love, Big, Here

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
Ryan Murphy

Writing, Hard, Sometimes

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.
Paul Taylor

Time, Home, Down

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
Linda Lingle

Future, Past, Feeling

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
Lacey Chabert

Old, Picture, Might

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
Naveen Jain

Change, Attitude, Business

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
Eric Stonestreet

Business, Dad, Whole

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
Lew Wasserman

President, Middle, Johnson

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.
Lee Ritenour

Music, Best, Find

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
Jeff Garcia

Change, Nature, Business

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
Natasha Richardson

Work, Good, Father

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
Tatyana Ali

Experience, Keep, College

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
Linda Vester

Idea, Next, Clear

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.
Linda Vester

Family, Thinking, Difficult

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
William Bell

School, Sometimes, Started

When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.
Robert Irvine

Exercise, Break, Session

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.
Jan Hammer

Amazing, Year, Sarah

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.
Santigold

Love, Movies, Else

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