Highways Quotes - Page 20

• I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Proud, Biographies

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• My boss seems to think that my hair is gonna fall off & go into the ice cream. This hair ain't movin' my dude. 150mph on the highway on a street bike it doesn't move! What makes you think it's gonna move in a gelato shop?

  Pauly D

  Moving, Fall, Thinking

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• Other cars on the highway driven by believers will suddenly be out of control and stark pandemonium will occur on... every highway in the world where Christians are caught away from the drivers wheel.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Religious, Humor

  "Nuclear War and the Second Coming of Christ". Book by Jerry Fatwell, 1983.

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• Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Firsts, Stories, Influential

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• I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Children, Leaving, Poverty

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Tragedy, Debt

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• Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Heart, Opportunity, Desire

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.

  Katya Chamma

  Communication, Independent, Internet

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• What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

  Bill Vaughan

  Disaster

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• When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Growing Up, Hate, Kids

  "INTERVIEW: Donnie Wahlberg talks tonight’s BLUE BLOODS, cop killers and life in NYC". Interview with Jim Halterman, jimhalterman.com. October 15, 2010.

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• The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Saving, May

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Running, Hands, Risk

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.

  Mary Oliver

  Country, Lying, Book

  Mary Oliver (1972). “The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems”

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• No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

  Ken Kesey

  Ceramics, Rorschach, Psycho

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.

  Carl G. Fisher

  Believe, Mean, Agriculture

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Envy, Immigration

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• It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.

  Bill Bryson

  Beautiful, Australia, Light

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• Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long

  Tom Cochrane

  Life, Night, Long

  Song: Life is a Highway, Album: Mad Mad World

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• I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Reality, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Men, Jail

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Practice, Simplicity, Path

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.191, Shambhala Publications

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• I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Doors, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books

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• The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Country, Law, Feelings

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• What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

  Samuel Beckett

  Country, Heart, Bills

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.168, Faber & Faber

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