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.

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.

Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

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

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

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

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

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.

I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.

I don't go down the road of condemning.

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

The road to success is always under construction.

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.