Lanes Quotes - Page 5

• People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.

  Queen Latifah

  Long, People, Next

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• As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Eight, Heaven

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.63, Delacorte Press

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• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Gratitude, Good Life, Grateful

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• I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.

  Jeff Gordon

  New York, Thinking, Racing

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

  Sheri Holman

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
  We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
  And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
  Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.
  We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
  And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
  Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
  We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

  Sara Teasdale

  Death, Beach, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

  Boris Johnson

  Cycling, Law, Ubiquity

  "Why we cyclists need to strike a deal with pedestrians" by Boris Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2006.

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• The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

  Virginia Woolf

  Twilight, Moving, Knitting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.56, Broadview Press

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• I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists as well. His poet's eye for detail seamlessly merges with a born storyteller's gift for narrative. Fate Moreland's Widow gives voice to those who endured one of the most painful and neglected chapters in American history.

  Ron Rash

  Eye, Fate, Voice

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• I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.

  Ewan MacColl

  Country, Travel, Men

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• And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a newspaper. You know what, how about we cool it with the freedom fries anyway you fat asses. We're the fattest country in the world. Have you ever walked around an American mall? It's nothing but chick fillets and Lane Bryant track suits busting at the seams.

  Tina Fey

  Country, War, Patriotic

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• True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins
  I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

  Nas

  Memories, Blue, Blood

  Song: Memory Lane, Album: Illmatic, 1994

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• God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

  Tyler Perry

  Giving, Stay Focused, Beats

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• A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

  Enrique Penalosa

  Country, Powerful, Cities

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• When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Organization, Swim

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• And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

  John Drinkwater

  Girl, Eye, Men

  John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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• You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!""I smile sometimes. I even laughed about your . . . hat.""MacHalo," I corrected tightly. "It's a brilliant invention, and it means I don't need you or V'lane to keep my safe from Shades, and that, Jericho Barrons, is worth its weight in gold: not needing either of you for something!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mean, Joy, I Don't Need You

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.529, Dell

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• Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane

  Nicki Minaj

  School, Games, Honey

  Song: Itty Bitty Piggy, 2009

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• Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.

  Samuel Johnson

  Squares, Cities, Together

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.72

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• Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Travel, Real

  Song: Thunder Road, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

  Vinod Khosla

  Communication, Years, Sea

  "How the Web Was Won". www.vanityfair.com. July 2008.

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