Down The Road Quotes

• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Happiness, Running, Positive Thinking

  "Coolidge: An American Enigma". Book by Robert Sobel, p. 242, 2000.

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• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

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• The road goes ever on and on

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Books And Movies, Errands, Fellowship

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Space, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

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• The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doors, Feet, Poetry

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

  Marianne Williamson

  Sometimes, Happens, Greater

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• I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Stones, Today, Ends

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Chasing Windmills”, Flying Dolphin Press

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• Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

  Rachel Cohn

  Glasses, Should Have, House

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• Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

  Charlaine Harris

  Taken, Path, Sometimes

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• I guarantee you I'm not going to forget your voice. We're going to run into each other down the road sometime, and when we do I'm going to pop you apart one rivet at a time." "There's the monster. Hello, monster.

  Richard Kadrey

  Running, Voice, Monsters

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• When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Dark, Cycling

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• And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

  Dr. Seuss

  Scare, Goes On, Want

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if a girl is aggressive. It's just sex.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Girl, Sex, Mind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• No matter who you are or where you're from somewhere down the road you're gonna need someone.

  Tarkan

  Needs, Matter, Somewhere Down The Road

  "Song: Touch ("Come Closer")". April 7, 2006.

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• Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

  Anthony James Leggett

  Years, Twenties, Pieces

  Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.

  Bob Weinstein

  Brother, Adventure, Character

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• We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set of reasonable rules, than to pretend that Ricardian trade is the norm and allow mercantilist states to overwhelm U.S. industry and ratchet down wages, in the name of free trade.

  Robert Kuttner

  Reality, Names, Would Be

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.124, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

  Scott Niedermayer

  Mom, Brother, Grief

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• A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"

  Linda Ellerbee

  Dog, Yelling, Play

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• 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

  Dream, Sleep, Too Late

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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