Quotes and Sayings about Road
"I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Fear, Body, Mind, Road, Terror)
"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Invention, Needs)
"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Government, Thought, Court, Respect)
"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Facts, Freedom, Principles, Speech)
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: May, Mind, Road, Space)
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: America)
"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Foreigners)
"The roughest road often leads to the top."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Road)
"Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Road)
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Dance, Fight, Road)
"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
(Related: Experience, College, Road)
"The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road."
- Charles L. Allen
(Related: Christian, Right, Road)
"Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Road)
"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: War, Passion, Planning, Road)
"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Thought, Mountains, Opium)
"And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Time, Adoption, Advertising, Internet, Right, Wrong)
"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Hate, Talk)
"They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Right, Road)
"I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: People, Right)
"Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Singing)
"I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Thought)
"The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Change, Mind, Road)
"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Peace, African, Leaders, Troops)
"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: People, Values, Benefits, Globalization, Needs, World)
"I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda."
- Kojo Annan
(Related: Day, Republican)
"There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: Idea, Film, Football, Literature, Nation, Today)
"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Reality, Road)
"Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Travel, Friends, Road)
"The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Movies, Kids, Rules)
"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: People, Day, Hurt, Programming, Public)
"All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records."
- Brody Armstrong
(Related: Music, Play, Road)
"I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road."
- Craig Armstrong
(Related: Peace, Environment, Military, Road)
"Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Road)
"I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Life, Blame, Choices, End, Passion, Road, Wrong)
"I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows."
- Bea Arthur
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Action, Failure)
"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."
- Paddy Ashdown
(Related: Agreement)
"If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people."
- Mackenzie Astin
(Related: People, Impression, Baseball, Games)
"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Interest, Responsibility)
"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Government, Television)
"I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Success, Travel, Road)
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Men, Mountains, Ocean, Rivers, Sea, Stars, Wonder)
"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Faithfulness, Multiplicity, Unity)
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Life, Power, Ability, Mind, Nothing, Observation)
"I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio."
- David Axelrod
"Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Law)
"The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping."
- Douglas Bader
(Related: England, Holiday, Road, Sea)
"But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure."
- George P. Baker
(Related: Action, Drama, Interest, Pleasure)
"Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation."
- George P. Baker
(Related: Past, Practice, Present)
"One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Separation)
"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Home, Enemies)
"One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you."
- Faith Baldwin
(Related: Life, Conviction, Nothing, Road, Will)
"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world."
- Steve Ballmer
(Related: Change, People, Company, Succeed, World)
"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: First, Infinite, Road, Salvation)
"I'm on this road for the rest of my life."
- Dennis Banks
(Related: Life, Rest, Road)
"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
- Russell Banks
(Related: Road)
"A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted."
- Matthew Barney
(Related: Sports, Order, Trying)
"Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical."
- Julia Barr
(Related: Act, Now, Right)
"I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have."
- Alice Barrett
(Related: Money)
"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Comedy, Road)
"There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Hunger, Road, Want)
"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Life, Road)
"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
- Ethel Barrymore
(Related: Love, Day)
"Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy."
- Dan Bartlett
(Related: May)
"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Legal, Family, Advice, Agreement)
"I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road."
- Kim Basinger
(Related: Sex, Hollywood, Road, Symbol)
"I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected."
- Charles F. Bass
(Related: American, Information, Name)
"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: Family, Metaphors, Understanding)
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Men, Poetry, Progress, Hate, Hatred, Road)
"I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?"
- Gary Bauer
(Related: Bizarre, Road)
"The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick."
- L. Frank Baum
(Related: Road)
"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Music)
"I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits."
- Les Baxter
"Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Business, Success, Work)
"Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out."
- Beck
(Related: Time, Learning, Road)
"No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Success, Happiness, Road)
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Humor, Road, Sense)
"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Food, Men, Society, Women, Beer, Irreverence, Old, Summer, Winter)
"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy."
- Clive Bell
(Related: Art, Ecstasy, Emotion, Road, World)
"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind."
- Clive Bell
(Related: Art, Family, Men, Religion, Alliance, Circumstance, Ecstasy, Mind, Religious, states)
"I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Lie, Road)
"I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Lie, Road)
"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
(Related: Military, Road, School)
"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Life, Longing)
"A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately."
- Eleanor Robson Belmont
(Related: Car, Taste)
"From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity."
- Richie Benaud
(Related: Humanity)
"Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters."
- Tony Benn
"I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Radical, Right, Road)
"A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: End, Road)
"There's a broad with a big future behind her."
- Constance Bennett
(Related: Future)
"I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century."
- Michael Bennett
(Related: Decency, Grandparents)
"We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us."
- Michael Bennett
(Related: Balance, Debt, Grandparents, Nothing, Waste)
"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
- Peter L. Berger
(Related: Change, Work, Values, Beliefs, Culture, Study)
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
- Yogi Berra
(Related: Road)
"When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it."
- Yogi Berra
(Related: Road)
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: People, Road)
"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."
- Vinoba Bhave
(Related: Experience, Habit, Attention, Road, Walking)
"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."
- Benazir Bhutto
(Related: Government, Peace, Afghanistan, Military)
"That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash."
- Jello Biafra
(Related: Time, Travel, Hope, Road)
"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Leading, Nothing)
"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Gossip)
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: People, Road)
"Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Day, State, Will)
"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Being, Fight, Road)
"Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Actors, Road)
"The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Road, Ruin)
"I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead."
- Frank Black
(Related: Country, Pleasure, Trying)
"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Mothers, Road)
"Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about."
- Joan Blades
(Related: People, Internet, Media, Post, Sense)
"We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism."
- John Blair
(Related: End, Socialism)
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
- William Blake
(Related: Wisdom, Excess, Road)
"We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad."
- Bradley A. Blakeman
(Related: Home, War, Americans, Enemies)
"Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so."
- Hans Blix
(Related: People, Idea, Hope, Possibility, Mind, Now)
"People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Life, Trust, People, Road)
"You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Money)
"I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats."
- Ella R. Bloor
(Related: People, Boats, Faces)
"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations."
- Earl Blumenauer
(Related: Formula, Majority, Public, Television)
"Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice."
- Bodhidharma
(Related: Practice, Reason)
"They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny."
- John Boehner
(Related: America, Commitment, Difference, Freedom, Importance, Mission, Terrorism, Tyranny, World)
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Life, Progress, Will)
"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road."
- Ray Bolger
(Related: Lonely, Now, Road)
"Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: War, Policy, Enemies, Foreign policy, Support, Terror, Troops)
"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
- Edward Bond
(Related: English, Punishment)
"The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap."
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(Related: Progress, Burden, Fight, Now, Order, Proof, Terrorism)
"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination."
- Hal Borland
(Related: Lie, Road)
"I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Home, Intelligence, Medical, People, American, Community, Information, Law, Military, professionals)
"I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Road)
"Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures."
- Paul D. Boyer
(Related: Family, Day, Driving, Now)
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Nixon, Pressure)
"They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum."
- Ben Bradlee
"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Experience, Basketball, Games, Summer)
"It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
(Related: Hope, Despair, Road, Will)
"People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes."
- Terry Bradshaw
(Related: People, Play, Respect, Road)
"Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps."
- Ernest Bramah
(Related: Road)
"I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that."
- Michelle Branch
(Related: Love, Theater, Want)
"I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad."
- Michelle Branch
(Related: Home, Love, Animals, Bed, Being, Cats, Job, Now, Road)
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
- Stewart Brand
(Related: Technology, Road)
"But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors."
- James H. Breasted
(Related: Civilization, Cities, Fathers, Land, Lonely, Obvious)
"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
- Rory Bremner
(Related: People, Selling, Conservative, End, Road, Will)
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Now, Road)
"In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other."
- Poppy Z. Brite
(Related: France, Influence, Road, Writer)
"Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house."
- Benjamin Britten
(Related: Driving, Road, Windows)
"We feel there is already widespread broadband available today."
- John Britton
(Related: Today)
"When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Philosophy, Word)
"Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Nature, Truth, Falsehood, Judgment)
"It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Now, Philosophy)
"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Act, Forget)
"In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Psychology)
"In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Mind, Psychology)
"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Common sense)
"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Nothing, Sound)
"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
- Charles D. Broad
(Related: Meaning, Senses)
"It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you."
- Jim Broadbent
(Related: Funny, English, Film, Help, Old)
"The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge."
- Jim Broadbent
(Related: World)
"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."
- Hermann Broch
(Related: Madness, Reason, Road, World)
"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: Literary, Reputation)
"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph."
- Tom Brokaw
(Related: Country, Crisis, Journalism, Tragedy, Words, Writer)
"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: News, Open)
"Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: God, End, Will)
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Travel, Anger, Bitterness, Hurt, Road)
"Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it."
- Pierce Brosnan
(Related: Business, People)
"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Space)
"You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Hope, Events)
"Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Quality, Road)
"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."
- Les Brown
(Related: Life, Goals, Road)
"We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore."
- Steve Brown
(Related: Money, Time, Manager, American, Road)
"You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band."
- Steve Brown
(Related: Kiss, Road, Sense)
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Happiness, People, Fulfillment, Road)
"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad."
- Sam Brownback
(Related: Democracy, Rights, Human rights)
"Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!"
- Michael Owen Bruce
(Related: Work, End, Months, Road)
"Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair."
- Steven Brust
(Related: Road, Snow)
"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education."
- John Bruton
(Related: Education, Work, Health, People, Country, Rights, Road, Safety, states)
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Haste, Man, Patience, Road)
"Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer."
- Betty Buckley
(Related: Art, Now, Theater)
"I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road."
- Pat Buckley
(Related: Life, God, Journey, Right, Road)
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
- Buddha
(Related: Truth, Mistakes, Road)
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
- Buddha
(Related: Death, People, Life, Road)
"I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: EnglFamous, First, Opera, Play, Television, Years)
"However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises."
- Warren E. Burger
(Related: Values, Interest, Privilege, Public)
"It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Work, People, Now, Tourists)
"Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Home, Men, Women, Freedom, Military, Today)
"If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?"
- Marian Burros
(Related: Dress, Kitchen, Restaurants)
"When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
- Barbara Bush
"We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky."
- George H. W. Bush
(Related: Diversity, Light, Nation, Sky, Stars)
"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Comedy, Man, Old, Parents)
"Death is only a larger kind of going abroad."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Death)
"My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway."
- Yancy Butler
(Related: Family, Manager, Mother, Production, Theatre)
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
- Italo Calvino
(Related: Talent, Genius, Inspiration, Nothing, Right, Road, Romantic)
"There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw."
- Stephen Cambone
(Related: Concern, Misleading, Perspective)
"I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hydration."
- Matt Cameron
(Related: Road, Weight)
"I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night."
- Matt Cameron
(Related: Food, Time, Night, Road)
"We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Food, Pretty)
"But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Road)
"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Work, Men, Women, Machines, Race, World)
"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Knowledge, Fight)
"Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways."
- Arthur Capper
(Related: Change, Work, People, Constitution, Future, Result, Road, Will)
"My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast."
- Harry Caray
(Related: Philosophy)
"I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability."
- Harry Caray
(Related: Ability, Being, Fans)
"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
- John Griffin Carlisle
(Related: Sense)
"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about."
- Tucker Carlson
(Related: Life, Positive, School)
"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Needs, Participation)
"We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Friend, Wealth, Israel, Participation, Security, Stability)
"Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Example, Participation, Reform)
"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
- Hoagy Carmichael
(Related: Mother, Man, Now)
"From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Performance, Defense, Security)
"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Heart, Man, Road, Talk)
"The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions."
- Charisma Carpenter
(Related: Emotions, Journey, Joy, Now, Play, Road)
"While at the same time knowing that once he had gone down that road, once it was clear that his life was never a peaceful one from that moment on. He always knew that there was somebody that would like to kill him."
- Keith Carradine
(Related: Life, Time, Road)
"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Reality, Sense)
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
- Lewis Carroll
(Related: Road, Will)
"My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough."
- Aaron Carter
(Related: Being, Famous, Favorite, Pretty, Road)
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
- George Washington Carver
(Related: Love, Nature, God, Will)
"My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Art, Men, Errors, Thinking, Will)
"There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on."
- Steve Case
(Related: Fact, Help, Road)
"I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Abortion, Debate, Effort, Open, Party)
"It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go."
- June Carter Cash
(Related: Feeling, Road, Will)
"I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing."
- David Cassidy
(Related: Successful, Career, Years)
"The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up."
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Time, Courage, Rights, Human rights)
"The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights."
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Possibility, Rights, Influence)
"I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: College, Road)
"By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Education, Appreciation, Ivy, Road, Schools, State, Students, Value)
"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made."
- Bruce Catton
(Related: Imagination, Certainty, Road)
"The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road."
- Emma Caulfield
(Related: Time, Advice, Limits, Open, Respect, Road)
"Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Humor, Love, Inspiration, Adventure, Intuition, Philosophy, Wit)
"There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Country, Internet)
"In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Company)
"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
(Related: People, Dogs, Flowers, Old, Road)
"I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Love, Work, Road)
"I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?"
- Lincoln Chafee
(Related: Age, Error, Road, Weapons, Worry, Years)
"Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news."
- David Chalmers
(Related: Consciousness, Mind, News, Philosophy)
"My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old."
- Jimmy Chamberlin
(Related: Brother, Inspiration, Fact, Old, Road, Years)
"On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Feeling, Night, Pleasure, Road)
"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Work)
"It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Work, Thought, Information, Will)
"For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her."
- Jung Chang
(Related: Mother, Heart, Environment, Open, Right, Understanding)
"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Work, Being, Conscience, Influence)
"I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid."
- Josh Charles
(Related: Career)
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
- Cesar Chavez
(Related: Progress, Achievement, Aspirations, Community, Forget, Needs, Prosperity)
"An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell."
- Hugo Chavez
(Related: Hell, Machine, Poor, Road, Years)
"I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: History, Temple, Extreme, Guitar, Road)
"There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: Road)
"New roads; new ruts."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Heart, Eye, Intellect, Road)
"As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?"
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: Action, Countries, Nation, Right, Road, Will)
"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Government, Choices, Road, Ruin, Taxes, Will)
"One always wonders about roads not taken."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Wonders)
"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Age, Attention, Children, College, Information)
"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."
- Ward Churchill
(Related: Death, Policy, Destruction, Foreign policy, Innocence, Results)
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Old, Words)
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Survival, Victory, May, Road, Terror)
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Government, Home, Time, Country)
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Age, Advice, End, Journey, Old, Road)
"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."
- Joel Coen
(Related: Car, Ability, Birds, Blood, Road, Want)
"The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad."
- Stephen Cohen
(Related: Home, Acting, Meaning)
"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."
- Monique Coleman
(Related: Women, Boys, Dancing, Fun, Now, Stars)
"Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording."
- Bootsy Collins
(Related: Day, Nothing, Road)
"But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up."
- Bootsy Collins
(Related: Cartoons, Now, Open, Play, Road, Trying)
"'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens."
- Phil Collins
(Related: Time, Road, Songs)
"I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards."
- Phil Collins
(Related: Brother, Guitar, Songs, Thinking, Writing)
"Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy."
- Carlo Collodi
(Related: Happiness, Fancy, Road, Saying)
"I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived."
- Holly Marie Combs
(Related: Doctors, Road)
"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."
- Ray Conniff
(Related: Paradise)
"We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves."
- Tim Conway
(Related: Life, People, Fun, Mistakes)
"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
- Will M. Cook
(Related: Artists)
"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
(Related: Road, Will)
"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life."
- Rita Coolidge
(Related: Life, Music, Experience, Wealth, Being, Information, Road)
"So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things."
- Jackie Cooper
(Related: Acting, Film, Mistakes)
"I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either."
- Jackie Cooper
(Related: Home, Act, Night)
"I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully."
- Jilly Cooper
(Related: Time, Family)
"Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald."
- John Sherman Cooper
(Related: People, Now)
"So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance."
- Kenneth H. Cooper
(Related: Fitness, Balance, Moderation)
"Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day."
- Rob Corddry
(Related: Actor, Day)
"I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it."
- Caroline Corr
(Related: Time, Deep, End, Road)
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."
- E. Joseph Cossman
(Related: Age, Change, Middle age, Mind)
"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Goals)
"I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards."
- Robin Cousins
"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Related: Survival, Destiny, Future, Question, Road, Years)
"And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result."
- Alex Cox
(Related: People, Result)
"I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care."
- Broderick Crawford
(Related: Care, Old)
"Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Movies, Beginning, Internet, Road, Years)
"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Nature, Birds, Insects, Sense, Water, Wind)
"You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven."
- Warren Cuccurullo
(Related: Day, Road, Sleep, Training)
"Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau."
- Tony Curtis
"I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it."
- Roger Daltrey
(Related: Success, Music)
"I do some broadcasting and speaking as well."
- Chuck Daly
"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."
- William Dampier
(Related: Road, Ships, Water)
"I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did."
- Charlie Daniels
(Related: Time, God, Friend, Road)
"If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Change, Freedom, Friends, Majority, Will)
"Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off."
- William Davenant
(Related: Fame)
"I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe."
- Gavyn Davies
(Related: People, Public, Service, Want)
"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."
- Peter Maxwell Davies
(Related: Talk, Television)
"We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world."
- Siobhan Davies
(Related: America, Artists, Europe, World)
"We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing."
- Siobhan Davies
"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."
- Angela Davis
(Related: Death, Freedom, Road)
"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Movies, Work, Reason)
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
- Colin R. Davis
(Related: Success, Failure, Road)
"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."
- Rebecca H. Davis
(Related: Road)
"The road to success runs uphill."
- Willie Davis
(Related: Success, Road)
"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Related: Dignity, Nothing)
"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
- Peter Davison
(Related: Hearing, Reason)
"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Peace, Road)
"I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Eye, Road, Want)
"My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting."
- Taylor Dayne
(Related: First, Months, Road)
"You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road."
- John Deacon
(Related: Children, Road, School)
"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Democrats, Flags, Want)
"Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway."
- Dom DeLuise
(Related: Success, Brooks, Friends, Heaven)
"We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps."
- Nelson DeMille
(Related: Journey, Road)
"Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book."
- David Deutsch
(Related: Change, Time, Travel, Day, May, World)
"Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Ideas, Possibility, Pretty)
"Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual."
- Indra Devi
(Related: Men, Spiritual)
"So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is."
- Danny DeVito
(Related: Dreams, Man, Road, Woman)
"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway."
- Danny DeVito
(Related: Work, Fun, Road)
"The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Success, Women, Husbands, Road)
"Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Policy, Judges, Resolution, Temptation)
"One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Life, Choice, Choices, Decisions, Journey, Road, Years)
"The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: History)
"Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: History, Explanations, Past, Reason)
"Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk."
- Bruce Dickinson
(Related: Life, Road, Want)
"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Dying, Night, Road)
"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: First, Philosophy, Road, Skepticism)
"But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway."
- Taye Diggs
"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
- Jonathan Dimbleby
(Related: Knowledge, Public)
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."
- Isak Dinesen
(Related: God, Road, World)
"The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views."
- John Dingell
(Related: People, Body, Country, Party)
"Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Bombs, Iraq, Military, Safety, Troops)
"America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Purpose, America, Day, End, Nation)
"It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks."
- John Doerr
(Related: Growth, Content, Rights, Respect)
"We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Destiny)
"Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day."
- Sam Donaldson
(Related: Home, Business, Thoughts, Bed, Competition, Day, News, Thinking, Want)
"I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Home, War, Gratitude, First, Terrorism)
"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
- Byron Dorgan
(Related: Ownership)
"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
(Related: Public, Water, Welfare)
"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."
- Geoff Downes
(Related: Idea, Environment, Road)
"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: Nature, Ideas)
"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."
- Elizabeth Drew
(Related: Travel, Conversation, Mind)
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
- Elizabeth Drew
(Related: Travel, Conversation, Mind)
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Country, Future, Night, Road, Trying)
"Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless."
- Katherine Dunn
(Related: Men, Women, Aggression, Deep)
"I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music, Poetry, Love, Literary)
"I need to broaden my horizons."
- Trevor Dunn
"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
- Will Durant
(Related: Freedom, Living)
"There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser."
- Buenaventura Durruti
(Related: Victory, Class, Freedom, Tyranny)
"What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Business, Help, Needs, Right, Service)
"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Race, Years)
"We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range."
- John Eaton
(Related: Life)
"Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: People, Church, Television, Theatre)
"I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything."
- Kenneth Edmonds
"The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word."
- Bob Edwards
(Related: Help, Word)
"In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting."
- Bob Edwards
(Related: Work, Driving, Road)
"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Road, Service)
"With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them."
- Paul Eldridge
"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."
- James Ellroy
(Related: Books, Road)
"It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range."
- John Elway
(Related: Being)
"We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on."
- Keith Emerson
(Related: Music)
"I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever."
- Michael Emerson
(Related: Dreams)
"I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city."
- Todd English
(Related: Boston, Theatre)
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Innovation)
"I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money."
- Daniel J. Evans
(Related: Money, College, Community, Tax, May, Today)
"For 50 years my father worked for the railroad."
- Harold Evans
(Related: Father, Years)
"He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue."
- Shawn Fanning
(Related: Truth, First, Potential)
"The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Civil rights, Community, Human rights, Now, Reason)
"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
- Jamie Farr
(Related: Hollywood)
"Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can."
- William Feather
(Related: Books, Mind, Nothing, Open)
"If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions."
- Douglas Feith
(Related: Life, Actions, Israel, Military, Night)
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
- Francois Fenelon
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Doctrine, Misery, Religious, Road, Vice, World)
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
- Lion Feuchtwanger
(Related: Leading, Road)
"A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm."
- James Thomas Fields
(Related: Life, Wife, Harm, Luck, Road)
"I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything."
- Harvey Fierstein
(Related: Time)
"The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy."
- Louis Finkelstein
(Related: Success, Possibility, Cause, Giving, Road)
"The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture."
- John Fiske
(Related: Experience, Culture, Sense)
"Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too."
- Edward Fitzgerald
(Related: Travel, Darkness, Road)
"All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Society, War, Fascism, First, Road, Will)
"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."
- Jean de La Fontaine
(Related: Flowers, Glory, Leading, Road)
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
- Jean de La Fontaine
(Related: Destiny, Road)
"So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society."
- Harold Ford
(Related: Society, Hope, Building, Ownership, Support, Washington)
"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
- Richard Foreman
(Related: Age, Trying)
"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Sisters)
"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(Related: Beginning, End, Road)
"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."
- Sam Walter Foss
(Related: Friend, Man, Road)
"It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity."
- Terry Fox
(Related: People, Publicity, Road, Talk)
"For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Family, Time, Life, First, Right, Road)
"For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Legislation, Poor, Sense, Welfare)
"Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Policy, Country, Decisions, Income, Inequality, Result)
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Family, Pleasure, Sorrow)
"I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me."
- Brendan Fraser
(Related: Home, Dogs, May, Road, Wonder)
"In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Encouragement, End, Years)
"The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers."
- Peter Fraser
(Related: Education, Government, Ability, Country, Right)
"I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow."
- Martin Freeman
(Related: Home, Drinks, Weekend)
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Dreams, Knowledge, Mind, Road, Unconscious)
"Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act."
- Dave Freudenthal
(Related: Dreams, Opportunity, Action, Envy, Will)
"When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows."
- David Friedman
"I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Property, Taxes, Want)
"Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats."
- Bruce Froemming
(Related: Dieting, Man, Murder, Road)
"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Road)
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Difference, Wood)
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Liberal, Man, Quarrel)
"The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often."
- Du Fu
(Related: Answers, Clouds, Weeping)
"It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance."
- Margaret Fuller
(Related: Men, Women, Chance, Liberty, Protest)
"It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person."
- Edward Furlong
(Related: Road)
"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."
- Kenny G
(Related: Being, Road)
"I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song."
- Peter Gabriel
(Related: Road, Song, Writing)
"My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre."
- Peter Gallagher
(Related: Family, Life, Support, Theatre)
"I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease."
- Peter Gallagher
(Related: Hair)
"All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal."
- Richard Le Gallienne
(Related: Name, Rome)
"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."
- Richard Le Gallienne
(Related: Faces, Flowers, Road, Song, Spring, Winter)
"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."
- Richard Le Gallienne
(Related: Nature, Work, Feet, Man, Trees)
"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."
- Richard Le Gallienne
(Related: Nature, Meetings, Promise, Road)
"It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it."
- Victor Garber
(Related: People, World)
"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
(Related: Change, Nature, Business, Road)
"Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Quality, Energy, Road, Want)
"Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Mistake, People, Thinking, Wrong)
"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction."
- Helen Garner
(Related: Life, Money, Fiction, Now, Writer)
"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"
- Peter Garrett
(Related: May, Road)
"You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Government, Power, People, Rights)
"Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!"
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Home)
"Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector."
- John Gates
(Related: Project, Public)
"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown."
- Charles de Gaulle
(Related: Greatness, Leading, Road)
"When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today."
- Sunil Gavaskar
(Related: Talent, Cricket, Focus, Today)
"The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence."
- John White Geary
"We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Home, Failure, Financial, Values, Consequences, Credit, Economy, Pressure)
"As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Policy, Financial, Behavior, Past, Play, Will)
"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Lie, Crisis, Responsibility, states, United, Years)
"The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable."
- Martha Gellhorn
(Related: Road, Snow)
"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Politics, Blood, Sea, Storms, Want, Will)
"There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad."
- Phyllis George
(Related: Being)
"I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding."
- Sete Gibernau
(Related: Family, Thought, Trials)
"So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing."
- Sete Gibernau
(Related: Trials)
"With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money."
- Sete Gibernau
(Related: Money, Time)
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Wisdom, Road)
"All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road."
- Mickey Gilley
(Related: Money, Selling, Road)
"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
- Terry Gilliam
(Related: Country)
"We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: American, Future, Politicians, Road, Welfare)
"You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum."
- Rudy Giuliani
(Related: Party)
"Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely."
- Tom Glazer
(Related: Negative, Lonely, Road)
"It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway."
- James Gleason
"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Religion, Christian, End, Will)
"Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled."
- William Goldman
(Related: Time)
"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
- Oliver Goldsmith
(Related: Life, Journey)
"The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating."
- Andrew Goodman
(Related: Freedom, Road)
"I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work."
- Austan Goolsbee
(Related: Business, Work, People, Democrats, Economy, Republicans, Will, Workers)
"A free public broadcast license is a privilege."
- Bart Gordon
(Related: Privilege, Public)
"Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching."
- Bart Gordon
(Related: Americans, Children, Content, Interest, Public, Responsibility)
"There was one year that I was on the road."
- Eydie Gorme
(Related: Road)
"I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more."
- Stone Gossard
"Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Teamwork, Fact, Racing, Road, Training)
"And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me."
- Juan Goytisolo
(Related: Experience, Day, Discovery, Intellectuals, Isolation)
"Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger."
- Kenneth Grahame
(Related: Animals, Being, Company, Danger, Road, Support, Trouble)
"I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Diet, Road)
"In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Work, Ability, Company, Pretty, Road)
"If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Work, Ability, Company, Road)
"With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Education, Curriculum, Future, Job, Road, School, Students)
"For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity."
- Jennifer M. Granholm
(Related: Success, Class, Entrepreneurs, Middle class, Productivity, Prosperity, World)
"Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope."
- Christine Gregoire
(Related: Education, People, Opportunity, Hope, World)
"A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?"
- William Greider
(Related: Financial, Values, Country, Determinism, Gain, Public, Question)
"I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time."
- Kathy Griffin
(Related: Time, Months, Road, Want)
"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
- John Guare
(Related: Ballet, Now, Numbers)
"In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time."
- Lisa Guerrero
(Related: Time, Decisions, Want)
"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."
- Sammy Hagar
(Related: Gold, Road)
"There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Temple, Now, Past)
"What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record."
- Peter Hain
(Related: Peace, Politics, Job, Road)
"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."
- Peter Hain
(Related: Peace, Countries, Leading, Road, Russia, Stability, states, United, World)
"The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful."
- Bill Haley
(Related: Road)
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Light)
"Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea."
- Granville Stanley Hall
(Related: Open, Sea)
"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."
- Tom T. Hall
(Related: Road)
"The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded."
- Scott Hamilton
(Related: Honesty, Integrity, Road)
"I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive."
- Marvin Hamlisch
(Related: Music, Composers, Writing)
"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."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Eye, Right, Road, Will)
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Death, Fulfillment, Road, Will)
"I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing."
- Jan Hammer
(Related: Road)
"It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it."
- Jan Hammer
(Related: America, Listening, Sharing, Talking, Voice)
"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing."
- Peter Hammill
(Related: Art, Examination, Lies, World)
"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action."
- Learned Hand
(Related: Action, Effort, Eyes, Reflection, Sun)
"And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe."
- Hanoi Hannah
(Related: War, Americans)
"Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them."
- Hanoi Hannah
(Related: Idea, Vietnam)
"Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement."
- Hanoi Hannah
(Related: Building, Effect, Support)
"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
- Hanoi Hannah
(Related: War, Idea, Soldiers)
"This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam."
- Hanoi Hannah
(Related: Vietnam, Voice)
"Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road."
- Isaac Hanson
(Related: Being, Road)
"Follow the yellow brick road."
- E. Y. Harburg
(Related: Road)
"All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is."
- Marcia Gay Harden
(Related: Time, Dream, Being, Now, School, Waiting, Years)
"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."
- Thomas Hardy
(Related: Enemy, Road)
"I love being on the road, I love playing."
- Ben Harper
(Related: Love, Being, Road)
"I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out."
- Neil Patrick Harris
(Related: Movies, Play)
"But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It's been a wonderful year."
- Gregory Harrison
"It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!"
- Gregory Harrison
(Related: Time, First)
"I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires."
- Ray Harryhausen
(Related: Animation, Pretty, Sense)
"With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays."
- Ernie Harwell
(Related: Giants)
"I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players."
- Ernie Harwell
(Related: Events)
"Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job."
- Ernie Harwell
(Related: People, Baseball, First, Job)
"My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream."
- David Hasselhoff
(Related: Dream, Ambition)
"It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Jobs, Road)
"The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: War, Iraq, Road, Terror)
"We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second."
- Reed Hastings
(Related: Beginning)
"I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms."
- Steven Hatfill
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Woman)
"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight."
- Vaclav Havel
(Related: Truth, Misery, Stars)
"My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad."
- Bob Hawke
(Related: Home, War, Danger, Participation, Result, Security, Wrong)
"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
- Paul Hawken
(Related: Environmental, Conservative, Country, Future, Old, Problems, Style)
"If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist."
- Stephen Hawking
(Related: Time, People, Scientists, Theory, Universe)
"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."
- Stephen Hawking
(Related: Change, People, Nothing, Road)
"What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Guilt, World)
"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Road, World)
"Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Beliefs, Ethics, Tolerance)
"At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them."
- Anna Held
(Related: Home, Paris, Road)
"I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel."
- Levon Helm
(Related: Travel, Policy, Country, Eating, Restaurants, Road)
"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Travel, Mind, Writing)
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Being, Difference, Road, Sentiment)
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: End, Road)
"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."
- Oliver Herford
(Related: Boston)
"I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life."
- Woody Herman
(Related: Life, Rest, Road)
"Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery."
- Eugen Herrigel
(Related: Talent, Danger, Lies, Road)
"I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside."
- James Herriot
(Related: People, Animals)
"The road to the sacred leads through the secular."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
(Related: Road)
"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it."
- Hesiod
(Related: Gods, Excellence, Lies, Quantity, Road)
"There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect."
- Andrew Heyward
(Related: Effect, Hate, Journalism, Press, Tradition)
"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
- Carl Hiaasen
(Related: First, Trees, Wind)
"The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Road)
"There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Nothing, Road)
"And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground."
- Betty Hill
(Related: Car, Road)
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: Force, Population, Rhetoric)
"There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make."
- Jim Hodges
(Related: Work)
"A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Success, Technology, Growth, Information, Nation, Productivity, Variety)
"There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures."
- J. G. Holland
(Related: Time, Road)
"I grew up on a dirt road with brothers."
- Josh Holloway
(Related: Brothers, Road)
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."
- Sterling Holloway
(Related: Road, Will)
"The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws."
- Ernest Holmes
(Related: Freedom, Laws, Lies, Road)
"I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Pet, Road)
"I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run."
- Soichiro Honda
(Related: Power, Past, Road, Thinking)
"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."
- Sidney Hook
(Related: Existence, Philosophy, Value)
"But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road."
- John Lee Hooker
(Related: Road, Want)
"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
(Related: Time, Poetry, Flying, Road, World)
"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."
- Horace
(Related: Flies, Word)
"Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too."
- Horace
(Related: Travel, Darkness, Road)
"Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists."
- Harriet Van Horne
(Related: History)
"Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?"
- Vernon Howard
(Related: Right, Road)
"Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made."
- Lu Hsun
(Related: Men, Hope, Earth, Road)
"In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism."
- Jinato Hu
(Related: Politics, Past, Reform, Road, Socialism, Years)
"We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel."
- Brit Hume
(Related: Network)
"We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job."
- Brit Hume
(Related: People, Job, Question)
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
- David Hume
(Related: Patriotism, Power, Popularity, Road, Tyranny)
"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
(Related: Goodwill, Hell, Intentions, Pretty, Road, Senate)
"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones."
- Evan Hunter
(Related: Aspirations, Now)
"The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else."
- Jeffrey Hunter
(Related: Time, Idea, Countries, Fun, Hollywood, Job, Traveling)
"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: History, Environment, Man)
"For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going - unless we are able to strengthen our core, we're going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: American, End, Nation, World)
"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Men, War, Development, Progress, Financial, Burden, Economy, Enemy, Nation, Nothing, Road)
"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers."
- John Hutton
(Related: Business, Goals, Legislators, Order, Past)
"Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union."
- John Hutton
(Related: Business, Nature, Road, Testing)
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Travel, God, Soul, Heart, Strength, Desire, Hunger, Man, May, Mind, Road)
"Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station."
- Ada Louise Huxtable
(Related: Nothing, Today)
"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
- Mark E. Hyman
(Related: Advertising, Eye, Network, News, Television)
"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Government, Office, Post)
"Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer."
- Janis Ian
(Related: Time, Road, Writer)
"There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here."
- Gwen Ifill
(Related: Interest, Old)
"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Action, Holiness, Road, World)
"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."
- Jack Irons
(Related: Road, Waiting)
"In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians."
- Jack Irons
(Related: Family, First, Musicians)
"Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Home, Men, Discipline)
"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Heart, Adversity, Fire, Lies, Prosperity, Woman)
"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Heart, Adversity, Fire, Lies, Prosperity, Woman)
"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."
- Johnny Isakson
(Related: Job, Road)
"I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring."
- Joichi Ito
"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."
- Burl Ives
(Related: Change, Clothes, Open, Road, Walking)
"Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot."
- Hugh Jackman
(Related: Being, Rest, Sleep)
"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
- Bruce Jackson
(Related: Body, Television)
"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
- Arne Jacobsen
(Related: Home, Inspiration, May, Years)
"Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx."
- Roman Jakobson
"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."
- Etta James
(Related: Car, Time, Country, Favorite, Guitar, Night, Road)
"I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage."
- Louise Jameson
(Related: Road, Years)
"I bought a railroad during this period of time."
- Bill Janklow
(Related: Time)
"Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Career, First, Road, Sharing)
"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Power, Corruption, Country, Destruction, First, Now, Road, Will)
"You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it."
- Waylon Jennings
(Related: Work, Name, Road)
"The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back."
- Sarah Orne Jewett
(Related: Road)
"Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap."
- Pope John XXIII
(Related: End, Road)
"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
- Andrew Johnson
(Related: Legal, Authority, Constitution, Limits)
"Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble."
- Jimmy Johnson
(Related: Road, Trouble, Will, Years)
"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Brotherhood, World)
"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Home, Purpose, Strength, Ability, America, Being, Country, Sense, Will)
"The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ."
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
(Related: Faith, People, Heart, America, Loyalty, Spirit, Trials)
"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."
- Phillip E. Johnson
(Related: Birds, Content, Existence, First, Flowers, Limits, Question)
"The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Road)
"Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Road)
"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him."
- Lynn Johnston
(Related: Heart, College, Day, Now, Will, World)
"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Content, Hollywood)
"You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Truth, Idea, Church, Act, Being, Road, Singing)
"I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane."
- Kelly Jones
(Related: Idea, Ritual, Road, Songs, Writing)
"When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart."
- Kelly Jones
(Related: Time, Beer, Cities, Eyes, Road)
"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: Man, Prison, states, United)
"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: Workers)
"I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it."
- Star Jones
(Related: Crisis, Saying)
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
(Related: Work, Obstacles, Trying, Will)
"Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip."
- Jon Bon Jovi
(Related: Future, Road, Worth)
"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."
- William Joyce
(Related: Country, Law, Road)
"I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport."
- Alberto Juantorena
(Related: Country, Race, Road)
"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."
- H. Stanley Judd
(Related: Road)
"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Danger, Evil, Man, Nothing, Order, Promises, Road)
"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Fire, Old, Road, Want)
"Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards."
- Robert Kagan
(Related: Difference, Europe, Old, Question, Right, Sense, World)
"Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Age, Thinking, Today)
"I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people."
- Garry Kasparov
(Related: People, Country, Day, Difference, End, Importance, Popularity)
"You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway."
- Danny Kaye
"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Actors, Respect, Sense)
"There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Money, Doubt, Fools, Hollywood, Liberals, Police, State)
"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."
- Kevin Keegan
(Related: Manager, Road, Saying)
"I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe."
- Sally Kellerman
(Related: Movies, Road)
"On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home."
- Florence Kelley
(Related: Home, Power, Brothers, Protection, Sisters)
"Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it."
- Kitty Kelley
(Related: People)
"I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, Time, Hope, Vision, Humanity, Opinion)
"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: History, Cure, Dawn, Magic, Mankind, Road)
"I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, War, Conflict, Military)
"I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week."
- Gene Kelly
(Related: Dance, Chicago, End, Fact, First, Job, Summer, Winter)
"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
- Kevin Kelly
(Related: Environment, Sense)
"As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Business, Economy, Play, Trying, Universe)
"The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them."
- Fanny Kemble
(Related: People, Curiosity, Excitement, Road, Weather)
"The best road to progress is freedom's road."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Progress, Freedom, Road)
"The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault."
- John P. Kennedy
(Related: Open)
"The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Work, Power, People, American, Iraq, Safety, Security, states, Support, Troops, United)
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Life, Road)
"Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad."
- Jahangir Khan
(Related: Effort, Play, Results, Will)
"I fantasized being a broadcaster."
- Larry King
(Related: Being)
"The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business."
- Larry King
(Related: Business, Life, Names)
"I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?"
- Larry King
(Related: Want)
"I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses."
- Stephen King
(Related: Funny, Houses, Road)
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Humanity, Living)
"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
- Barbara Kingsolver
(Related: Fact, Road)
"If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone."
- Jack Kingston
(Related: Change, Marriage)
"I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap."
- Robert Kirkman
(Related: Character, Road)
"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: Road, Will)
"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends."
- Vaclav Klaus
(Related: Friends, Literary, Writer)
"Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Life, Humor, Key, Laughter, Loss)
"The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding."
- Robert Klein
(Related: Quality, Research)
"If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite."
- Evel Knievel
(Related: Favorite, Racing, Road)
"I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway."
- Don Knotts
(Related: Funny)
"I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well."
- Billy Koch
(Related: Time, Giving, Road)
"If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable."
- Horst Koehler
(Related: Road, Want)
"George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity."
- Helmut Kohl
(Related: Road, Unity)
"It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable."
- Herb Kohl
(Related: Time, Americans, Drugs, Reform)
"I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal."
- Olga Korbut
(Related: Life, Goal, Day, Friends, Fun, Road)
"Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty."
- Olga Korbut
(Related: Life, Duty, Road, Will)
"My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway."
- Lee Krasner
(Related: University)
"Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road."
- Carson Kressley
(Related: Road)
"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Conservative, Pretty)
"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."
- Satish Kumar
(Related: Women, People, Day, Road, Walking)
"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
- Milan Kundera
(Related: Listening, News, Smoking)
"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Greed, Kindness)
"Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation."
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
(Related: Progress, Community, Road)
"I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road."
- Neil LaBute
(Related: Men, Time, Women, Hope, Open, Road)
"I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book."
- Mercedes Lackey
(Related: Work, Events, Writing)
"I support any Muslims, whether here or abroad."
- Osama bin Laden
(Related: Support)
"We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Understanding, World)
"By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road."
- Jack LaLanne
(Related: Work, Life, Day, Exercise, Road, Television)
"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Men, Decision, Choice, Feeling)
"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."
- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Death, War, Belief, Future, Judgment, Mankind, Propaganda, Road, Shadow)
"The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers."
- Brooke Langton
(Related: Film)
"America needs to be secure at home and abroad."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Home, America, Needs)
"Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity."
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
(Related: Men, Truth, Hinduism, Quest, Validity)
"As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?"
- Hugh Laurie
(Related: People, Friend, Drama, Hate, Imperfection, Road)
"It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci."
- Antoine Lavoisier
(Related: Thought, Weather, Will)
"I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents."
- Jude Law
(Related: Childhood, Class, London, Middle class)
"I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so."
- Jerry Lawler
(Related: Time, Woman)
"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
- Jerome Lawrence
(Related: Boredom, Competition, Play, Theater, Today)
"The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train."
- Henry Lawson
(Related: Help, Man, Road)
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."
- Henry Lawson
(Related: Home, Deep, Old, Road)
"Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Being, Fact, News, Talk)
"We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three."
- Laurie Lee
(Related: Father, Living, Road)
"Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road."
- Peggy Lee
(Related: Love, Life, Music, Disease, Road, Singing)
"You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down."
- Stanislaw Lem
"Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known."
- Madeleine L'Engle
(Related: Experience, Acceptance, Intuition, Road)
"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."
- Aldo Leopold
(Related: Development, Building, Country, Job, Mind)
"The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge."
- Edward Levi
(Related: Knowledge, Learning, Questions, Unity)
"This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge."
- Eugene Levy
(Related: Fun)
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Hell, Road)
"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Progress, Man, Right, Road, Walking, Want, Wrong)
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Achievement, Road)
"The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge."
- Carl Lewis
(Related: Courage, Challenge, Harmony, Road, Trials, World)
"There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic."
- Michael Lewis
(Related: Statistics)
"Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Home, Success, Cause, Freedom, Iraq, Safety)
"Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: War, Strength, Cause, Freedom, Military, Party, Security)
"It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me."
- Judith Light
(Related: Road)
"Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice."
- Maya Lin
(Related: Thought, Denmark, Growing up, Prejudice)
"Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill."
- Blanche Lincoln
(Related: People, Country, Now, Road)
"At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road."
- Joseph C. Lincoln
(Related: Feelings, Aspirations, Road, Unconscious)
"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
(Related: Optimism, Feeling, Future, Past, Road, Years)
"I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could."
- O. Winston Link
(Related: Man)
"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."
- Charles de Lint
(Related: End, Road)
"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."
- Charles de Lint
(Related: Goal, Leading, Road)
"Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps."
- Bill Lipinski
(Related: Money)
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
- Franz Liszt
(Related: Art, Consciousness, Conviction, Open)
"The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Being, Challenge, Danger, Now, Tourists, Variety)
"It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Time, Comedy)
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
- Penelope Lively
(Related: History, English)
"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
- David Livingstone
(Related: Men, Road, Want, Will)
"You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon."
- David Lloyd
(Related: Peace, Men, Road)
"The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community."
- Mark Lloyd
(Related: Community, Criticism, Meeting, Play, Public, Rules, Support, Want, Will, Words)
"Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Experience, Prejudice)
"The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road."
- Lisa Loeb
(Related: Humor, Movies, Boyfriend, Books, Road, Sense)
"My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road."
- Kenny Loggins
(Related: Life, Road, World)
"There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do."
- Dave Lombardo
(Related: Time, Nothing, Road)
"At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It's a lot more fun now with the family."
- Dave Lombardo
(Related: Family, Fun, Now, Road, Vacation)
"It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most."
- Jonah Lomu
(Related: Fitness, Health, Love, Opportunity, Road)
"I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road."
- Jay London
(Related: Driving, Lonely, Road)
"I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture."
- LaToya London
(Related: Love, Play)
"My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear."
- James Longstreet
(Related: Victory, Battle, Defeat, Road)
"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."
- Federico Garcia Lorca
(Related: Fear, Road, Silence)
"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Sexuality)
"The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones."
- Nick Lowe
(Related: People, Attitude, Musicians, Play, Road, World)
"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Life, Change, Friend, Faces, Road)
"Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith."
- Rich Lowry
(Related: Faith, War, Strategy, Deep)
"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."
- David Lynch
(Related: Actors, Right, Road, Talking)
"Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Business, Experience, Problems, Road)
"Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology."
- Trofim Lysenko
(Related: Development, Country, Right, Road, Thinking)
"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well."
- James MacArthur
(Related: Luck, Nothing, Pretty, Road)
"They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none."
- Ann Macbeth
(Related: Time, Possibility, Corporate, Now, Open, Right, Will)
"I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals."
- Norm MacDonald
(Related: Gay)
"The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done."
- Seth MacFarlane
(Related: Worry)
"A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town."
- Patrick MacGill
(Related: Home, Singing)
"My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government."
- Peter MacKay
(Related: Government, Conservative, Party, Road)
"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
- Harold MacMillan
(Related: Home)
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
- John Madden
(Related: Road)
"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."
- Dolley Madison
(Related: Sister, Army, Now, Road, Will)
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
- James Madison
(Related: Home, Danger, Liberty, Loss)
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
- James Madison
(Related: Home, Truth, Danger, Liberty, Loss)
"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
- James Madison
(Related: Home, Truth, Danger, Liberty, Loss)
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Men, Future, Past, Tradition)
"A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Positive, Church, Alcohol, Drugs, Example, Healing, Victims)
"When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss."
- Margaret Mahy
(Related: Family, Mother, Friend, Losing, Loss, Memory, Road)
"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Travel, Being, Consciousness, Self)
"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Life, People, Interest, Understanding)
"I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad."
- Ella Maillart
"I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine."
- Karl Malone
(Related: Home, Work, Nothing, Now, Order, Play, Road)
"The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory."
- Nick Mancuso
(Related: Life, Actor, Glory, Road, Will)
"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Dreams, Forgiveness, Goal, Goodness)
"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
- Chuck Mangione
(Related: Being, Night, Road)
"One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people."
- Camryn Manheim
(Related: People, Community)
"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Lovers, Road, Seduction)
"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Lovers, Road, Seduction)
"I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Day, Focus, Now)
"You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth."
- Mickey Mantle
"Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Home, Fight, London)
"This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Family, Values, Country, Television)
"I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Home, Peace, Society, Success, Perseverance, Dedication, May, Service)
"When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Time, Progress, Burden, Journey, May, Obstacles, Right, Road)
"A good system shortens the road to the goal."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Goal, Road)
"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Life, Work)
"Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball."
- Roger Maris
(Related: People, American, Baseball, Day, Desire, Hell, Play, Road, Yankee, Years)
"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"
- Bob Marley
(Related: Life, Thoughts, Vision, Hate, Jealousy, Mind, Reality, Road)
"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."
- Wynton Marsalis
(Related: Education, Confidence, First, Future, Road)
"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Work, Being, Content, Living, Man, Road)
"And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Challenge)
"Democracy is the road to socialism."
- Karl Marx
(Related: Democracy, Road, Socialism)
"My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize."
- Queen Mary
(Related: Parents)
"These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home."
- Robert Matsui
(Related: Home, War, Americans, News)
"Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: Law, Order, Road, Rules, Terror, Unity)
"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Life, Belief, Horror, World)
"Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration."
- Jane Mayer
"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."
- Thom Mayne
(Related: Architecture, Idea, Value, Walking)
"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."
- Thabo Mbeki
(Related: Computers, People, Country, Road, Television, Will)
"Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression."
- Thabo Mbeki
(Related: Oppression, Road, Struggle, Today)
"The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time."
- John McCain
(Related: Time, Republican, Tea)
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Behavior, Being, Man)
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Movies, Negative, America, American, Europe, Popularity, Proof)
"The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Money, Time, Attention, First, Influence, Politicians, Washington)
"The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Finance, Reform, states, United)
"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Public)
"Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Profit, Public, Service)
"And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Change, Country)
"If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: History, Mission, Trade)
"If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'."
- Paul McDonald
(Related: Life, Ending, Road, Song)
"So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other."
- Barry McGuire
(Related: Years)
"That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight."
- Barry McGuire
(Related: Hair, Man, Night)
"I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted."
- Ian McKellen
(Related: Road)
"You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in."
- Ian McKellen
(Related: Time, Death, Life, End, Saying, Want, Waste)
"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should."
- Sarah McLachlan
(Related: Road)
"The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted."
- Peter McWilliams
(Related: Road)
"This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: Peace, People, Character, Hope, Democracy, Prosperity, Road, Struggle)
"If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education."
- Ken Mehlman
(Related: Education, History, Quality, Dream, American, Decisions, Key)
"Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me."
- Fred Melamed
(Related: Possibility, Acting, Theatre)
"Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Development, America, Challenge, Diplomacy, states, Trouble, United, Will)
"We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Home, Country, Economy)
"We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Democracy, Destruction, Freedom, Rights, Human rights, Objectives, Respect, Support, Weapons)
"We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road."
- Johnny Mercer
(Related: Friend, Baby, Drinking, Road)
"Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway."
- Ethel Merman
"I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals."
- Ethel Merman
"I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism."
- Ed Miliband
(Related: Dad, Road, Saying, Socialism)
"With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly."
- Jeff Miller
(Related: Men, War, Women, Nation, Terrorism)
"But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy.So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view."
- Joe Miller
(Related: Government, Power, Time, Opportunity, Economy, Extreme, Giving, states)
"The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: Light)
"Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: Power, War, Purpose, Conviction, Enemy, Nations)
"But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination."
- Laura Miller
(Related: Imagination, Love, Children)
"In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad."
- David Milne
(Related: Development, Company, Engineering, Majority, Sales, Will)
"Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Home, Cities, Comfort, Road, Years)
"Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway."
- Liza Minelli
"When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits."
- Andrea Mitchell
(Related: Love, People, College, English, Liberal, Literature, Study, University)
"All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting."
- Andrea Mitchell
(Related: Love, Politics, Pretty, Taste)
"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."
- Kel Mitchell
(Related: Chicago, Theater)
"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"
- Maria Mitchell
(Related: Soul, Learning, World)
"I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind."
- Maria Mitchell
(Related: Love, Life, Dying, Road)
"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
(Related: Road, Years)
"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good."
- Clement Mok
(Related: Design, Technology, Business, Being, Chaos, Order, Sense)
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
- Moliere
(Related: Error, Haste, Road)
"Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too."
- Vaughn Monroe
(Related: Music, People, Eating, Hair)
"Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man."
- Wes Montgomery
(Related: Time, Work, Man, Night, Pretty, Road, Will)
"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points."
- John Moody
(Related: May)
"The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific."
- John Moody
(Related: Act, Congress, Conviction, Gold, Necessity, Public)
"The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship."
- John Moody
"When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period."
- John Moody
(Related: First, states, United)
"With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history."
- John Moody
(Related: History)
"Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed."
- John Moody
(Related: states, United)
"The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress."
- John Moody
(Related: History, Progress)
"The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad."
- John Moody
(Related: Inventions, Result, states, Today, United)
"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads."
- John Moody
(Related: Development, Connection, Country, Prosperity)
"Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand."
- John Moody
(Related: Fact, Laws, Managers, Public)
"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."
- John Moody
(Related: History, Men, Leaders, Rank)
"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business."
- John Moody
(Related: Business, Difficulties, First)
"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
- William Least Heat Moon
(Related: People, Past, Right, Road, Traveling)
"When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
- William Least Heat Moon
(Related: People, Past, Right, Road)
"I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road."
- Archie Moore
(Related: Road)
"He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly."
- Clement Clarke Moore
"I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek."
- Mandy Moore
(Related: Theatre)
"If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads."
- Dylan Moran
"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
- Samuel E. Morison
(Related: Mind, Reputation)
"Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor."
- Alanis Morissette
(Related: Humor, Events, Road, Spiritual, Will)
"My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: Son, Leading, Road, Yesterday)
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
- John Morley
(Related: Opinions, Worth)
"The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters."
- Robert Morley
"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."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Chaos, Disorder, Freedom, Meaning, Road)
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Chaos, Disorder, Freedom, Meaning, Road)
"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
- Constance Baker Motley
(Related: Living, World)
"The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude."
- John Lothrop Motley
"This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Time, First, Public, Years)
"I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it."
- Jason Mraz
(Related: Time, Idea, Now, Road, Songs)
"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: War, Victory, Enemy, Hatred, Liberty, Planning, Road, Succeed, Today, Will)
"We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Work, Home, Defeat, Law, Military, Terrorism, Tools, Weapons)
"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
- Gilbert Murray
(Related: Imagination, Direction, Greece, Road)
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."
- Patrick Murray
(Related: Difference, Lying, Road)
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
- Edward R. Murrow
(Related: Home, Freedom)
"Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road."
- Brent Musburger
(Related: Road, Sharing)
"In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life."
- Michael Musto
(Related: Life, Chicago, Queen, Theater)
"I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far."
- Ajay Naidu
(Related: Theatre)
"The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication."
- Hidetoshi Nakata
(Related: Communication, Importance, Living, Years)
"I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad."
- Hidetoshi Nakata
(Related: Interest, Result, World)
"When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York."
- Joe Namath
(Related: Stress, Wives)
"Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced."
- James Nasmyth
(Related: Power, Time, England, Russia)
"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."
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
(Related: Blood, Fire, Force, Present, Road, Sea)
"I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do."
- Ednita Nazario
(Related: Play)
"More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care."
- Richard Neal
(Related: Benefits, Care, Safety, Unemployment)
"If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop."
- Nicholas Negroponte
(Related: Education, Solution, World)
"A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism."
- Ben Nelson
(Related: War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Terrorism)
"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."
- Knute Nelson
(Related: God, Hope, Arrogance, Forget, Mind, Order, Will, Wrong)
"At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy."
- Randy Neugebauer
(Related: Time, Home, Policy, Decision, Common sense, Energy, Exploration)
"The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors."
- Bob Newhart
(Related: Discipline, Actors, Play)
"Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump."
- Bob Ney
(Related: Common sense, Help, Road)
"My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers."
- Stevie Nicks
(Related: Family, Love, Money, Brothers, Road)
"In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction."
- John George Nicolay
(Related: Politics, Law, Usefulness)
"The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain."
- Harold Nicolson
(Related: Man, Question)
"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
- Earl Nightingale
(Related: Courage, Press, Road)
"Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records."
- Peter Noone
(Related: Time)
"So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out."
- Dudley North
(Related: Money, Interest, May, Trade, Will)
"On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family."
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
(Related: Equality, Family, Women, Values, American, Example, Road, Treatment)
"Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter."
- Joshua A. Norton
(Related: Travel, Company, Now)
"And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale."
- Kim Novak
"The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads."
- Flann O'Brien
(Related: Irish, Jobs, Majority, Parliament, Politicians, Sense)
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
- Flannery O'Connor
(Related: Time, Eternity, Writer)
"In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad."
- Kenzaburo Oe
(Related: War, Opportunity, Purpose, Constitution, Renunciation)
"As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke."
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Home, Museums, Trouble)
"President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population."
- John Olver
(Related: War, Islam, Iraq, Population, President, World)
"We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem."
- John Olver
(Related: Travel, Oil, World)
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
- Michael Ondaatje
(Related: War, Chance, Fate, Rights, Human rights)
"I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message."
- Joel Osteen
(Related: Church, Want)
"I don't go down the road of condemning."
- Joel Osteen
(Related: Road)
"If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think."
- Miranda Otto
(Related: Imagination, Character, Film, May)
"Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe."
- Rudolf Otto
(Related: Deep, Sea, Universe)
"The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy."
- Buck Owens
(Related: Lonely, Road)
"We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity."
- Michael Oxley
(Related: Technology, Growth, Information, Order, Productivity)
"I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!"
- Elaine Paige
(Related: Applause, Community, First, Theatre)
"It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys."
- Brad Paisley
(Related: Positive, Building, Road, World)
"I've been on the road I think probably three years."
- Brad Paisley
(Related: Road, 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."
- Carl Paladino
(Related: People, Dignity, Job, Luck, Responsibility, Road)
"So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes."
- Sarah Jessica Parker
(Related: Choices, Mistakes)
"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Truth, Soul, Man, Will)
"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."
- Francis Parkman
(Related: Military, Road)
"We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie."
- Francis Parkman
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
(Related: Road, Walking)
"The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads."
- Walter Pater
(Related: Age, Culture)
"I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize."
- Dick Van Patten
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Time)
"Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever."
- Les Paul
(Related: Wife, Now, Sound, Wood)
"Take the back roads instead of the highways."
- Minnie Pearl
"They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things."
- Leonard Peltier
(Related: People, Justice, Want, Will, World)
"When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism."
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
(Related: Road)
"People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics."
- Li Peng
(Related: People, Development, Countries, Light, Right, Road)
"There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great."
- Matthew Perry
(Related: Fight, Now)
"The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada."
- Bernadette Peters
(Related: First)
"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."
- Bernadette Peters
(Related: Experience, First)
"We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory."
- Ralph Peters
(Related: Victory, May, Road, Will)
"India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship."
- Pierre Pettigrew
(Related: Power, Building)
"It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming."
- Liz Phair
(Related: Internet, Road, Songs)
"I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Actors, Diversity)
"But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: People, Ideas, Control, Sense, Want)
"Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Family, Hope, Importance, Legislation, Programming, Public)
"I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'."
- John Pistole
(Related: Saying, Security, Want)
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
- Ruth Pitter
(Related: Heaven, Homesickness, Right, Road)
"This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5."
- Bernard Pivot
(Related: Work, France, Production, Sense, Television)
"You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it."
- Robert Plant
(Related: Music, Financial, Years)
"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
- Plato
(Related: Home, Lie, Lying, May, Privilege, State)
"So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether."
- Sidney Poitier
(Related: Journey, Road)
"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Leading)
"Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience."
- John Pomfret
"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."
- John Pomfret
(Related: Thought, Control, America, Democracy, Freedom, Interest, Liberty, Nation, Nations)
"The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it."
- John Pomfret
(Related: Travel, Desire, Living)
"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians."
- Georges Pompidou
(Related: Women, Gambling, Ruin)
"Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there."
- Pete du Pont
(Related: American, Beginning, Chance, Public, Road)
"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, God, Road)
"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Road, Will, Wrong)
"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."
- Natalie Portman
(Related: Dream, Dancing)
"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
- Dennis Potter
(Related: Work)
"I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father."
- Lisa Marie Presley
(Related: Father, Memories)
"I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road."
- Adelaide Anne Procter
(Related: Life, May, Road)
"I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength."
- Sextus Propertius
(Related: Strength, Glory, Road)
"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."
- Vladimir Putin
(Related: Democracy, Rights, Human rights, Nothing, Road, Russia, Will)
"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."
- Pythagoras
(Related: Life, Friends, Journey, Road)
"The road to perseverance lies by doubt."
- Francis Quarles
(Related: Perseverance, Doubt, Lies, Road)
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."
- Dan Quayle
(Related: Friends, May, Right, Road, Surrender, Will)
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
- Anthony Quinn
(Related: Building, Irish)
"I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments."
- Daniel Radcliffe
(Related: People, Acceptance, Countries, Monuments)
"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country."
- Karl Radek
(Related: Absence, Country, Party)
"Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away."
- Ted Rall
(Related: Nothing, Quotes, Right, Road, Ruin, Writing)
"It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear."
- Mick Ralphs
(Related: Funny, People, Company, Road, Songs)
"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: People, Questions, Road)
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Men, Vision, First, Nothing)
"They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death."
- Dixie Lee Ray
(Related: Death, Life, Time, Being)
"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Play, World)
"It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Technology, Attention, Information, Mind)
"In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Fact, Nothing, Road)
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
- Robert Redford
(Related: Defense, Environment, National security)
"Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life."
- Jerry Reed
(Related: Life, Time)
"We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad."
- Dave Reichert
(Related: America, Danger, Effort)
"I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now."
- Ivan Reitman
(Related: Film, Now)
"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."
- Jules Renard
(Related: Open, Pretty, Will, Woman)
"The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow."
- Claudio Reyna
(Related: People, America, Play, Soccer, Will)
"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history."
- Albert Reynolds
(Related: History, Peace, Beginning, Goodwill, Ireland, Now, Open, Reality)
"I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road."
- Buddy Rice
(Related: Road, Years)
"Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend."
- Grantland Rice
(Related: Friend, Day, Journey, Night, Road, Will, Wind)
"If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter."
- Cliff Richard
(Related: Life, Guitar, May, Play, Regret, Road, Will)
"The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today."
- Elliot Richardson
(Related: Work, Today, Years)
"I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast."
- Kevin Richardson
(Related: Opportunity, Chicago)
"While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community."
- Burton Richter
(Related: Ideas, Community, Job)
"It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad."
- Manfred von Richthofen
"When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle."
- Thelma Ritter
(Related: Man, Woman)
"I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad."
- Julia Roberts
"I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Road)
"The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land."
- Paul Robeson
(Related: People, Court, Land, Reason, State, Today)
"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
(Related: Manager, Road, Trying)
"On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Forget, Guests, Play, Road)
"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: Age, Life, End, Hell, Intention, Rest, Road, Security)
"The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Act, American, Decency, Rest)
"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."
- Jim Rohn
(Related: Education, Motivation, Needs, Road, Wrong)
"In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: American, Beach)
"I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing."
- Henry Rollins
(Related: People, Day, Road, Today, Will)
"But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not."
- Christy Romano
(Related: Disney)
"I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down."
- Christina Romer
(Related: Economy, President, Road)
"But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know."
- Roy Romer
(Related: Experience, College, May, State, Value, Years)
"Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Business, Money, Father, Career, Road)
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Car, Education, Man, May, School, University)
"As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Home, Love, Time, Road)
"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."
- Philip Roth
(Related: Hell, Road)
"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."
- Karl Rove
(Related: Danger, Liberals, Motives, Needs, Now, Troops, Words)
"If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic."
- Warren Rudman
(Related: Care, First, Planning)
"I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Family, Film, Months, Now, Play, Right, Want)
"For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean."
- Ann Rule
(Related: People, Court, Now, Play)
"When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Policy, Decision, Guidance, Help, President)
"And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up."
- Meg Ryan
(Related: Movies, Road, Years)
"I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career."
- Nolan Ryan
(Related: Time, People, Career, Road, Today)
"What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Leadership, Today)
"One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Government, Decision, Tax, Land, Property, Public)
"Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Food, Travel, Commerce, Help, Risk)
"Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass."
- Jeffrey Sachs
(Related: Work, Country, Focus, Problems, Rest, Will, World)
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
- Carl Sagan
(Related: American, Books, Information, Value, World)
"Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles."
- Paul Samuelson
(Related: Automobiles, Internet, Old, Will)
"Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes."
- Paul Samuelson
"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."
- Frederick Sanger
(Related: Art, Life, Science, Improvement, Senses, Students)
"The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people."
- Eisaku Sato
(Related: People, Desire)
"The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go."
- Jessica Savitch
(Related: Road)
"Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad."
- Hjalmar Schacht
(Related: Home, Consequences, Countries, Economy)
"The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book."
- Michael Scheuer
(Related: American, Osama bin laden, Road, World)
"This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Help, Will, World)
"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Police, State, Will)
"What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: End, May, Road)
"He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides."
- George Schultz
"Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Life, Love, Arguments, Expediency, Road)
"In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich."
- David Joseph Schwartz
(Related: Age, Talent, Wealth, Americans, Cities, Restaurants)
"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Being, Road, Spiritual)
"Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Security)
"I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop."
- Bon Scott
(Related: Road, Years)
"I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company."
- Lee Scott
(Related: Actions, Company, Today)
"Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out."
- Michael Scott
(Related: Travel, People, Challenge, Christ, Mission, Road)
"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."
- Earl Scruggs
(Related: Interest, Road, Want)
"I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road."
- Vin Scully
(Related: Life, Love, Baseball, Challenge, Hate, Loneliness, Road)
"I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America."
- Leah Ward Sears
(Related: Ideas, America, Democracy, Rights, Human rights, Ideals, Laws, Struggle)
"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Change, Manager, Clothes, Road)
"Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending."
- Compay Segundo
(Related: Travel, People, Beginning, Ending, Now, Songs, Want, Years)
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
- Jerry Seinfeld
(Related: Reason, Road)
"I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers."
- Jay Alan Sekulow
(Related: Faith, Court, Religious, Will, Years)
"One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government."
- Connie Sellecca
(Related: Government, People, Fishing, Forget, Road, Will)
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Greatness, Road)
"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
- Richard Serra
(Related: Art, Work, People, Effort, Interest, Potential)
"But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play."
- Richard Serra
(Related: Consideration, Play)
"Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something."
- Brian Setzer
(Related: Road)
"Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed."
- Brian Setzer
(Related: Blame, Career, Road)
"Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything."
- Doc Severinsen
(Related: Life, Time, Being, Now, Road, Trade, World)
"Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map."
- Silvan Shalom
(Related: Community, Countries, Party, Road, Want, World)
"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Home, Feeling)
"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
- Tommy Shaw
(Related: Day, Road)
"I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there."
- Tommy Shaw
(Related: Being, Living, Road)
"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."
- Tommy Shaw
(Related: Road)
"I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do."
- George Shearing
(Related: Work, Being, Giving, Road, Will)
"I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Romance, First, Road, Singing, Songs, Years)
"We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada."
- Billy Sherwood
(Related: Canada, Road)
"I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge."
- M. E. W. Sherwood
(Related: Public, Ugly)
"I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned."
- Brooke Shields
(Related: Community)
"The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined."
- Brooke Shields
(Related: Being)
"The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms."
- Brooke Shields
(Related: Open)
"Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe."
- Mark Shields
(Related: War, Country, Iraq, Road)
"Thailand stands at a crossroads."
- Thaksin Shinawatra
"We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress."
- Li Ka Shing
(Related: Age, Knowledge, Progress, Vision, Skill, Thinking)
"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Peace, Problems)
"When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: Anger, Age, Feelings, Expression, Pain, Road)
"The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Democracy, May, Ocean, Road, Will)
"Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Wisdom, Peace, Cooperation, Goodwill, Leaders, Sincerity, Stability, Understanding)
"It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Democracy, Right, Road)
"America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols."
- Bill Shuster
(Related: War, Action, America, Congress, Terrorism, Today, Troops, Veterans)
"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
(Related: Success, Road)
"The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road."
- George Robert Sims
(Related: Country, Road)
"After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower."
- Nancy Sinatra
(Related: Old, Play, Road)
"I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track."
- Marc Singer
(Related: Example, Old, Years)
"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Life, Inns, Man, Pilgrimage, Rest)
"Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Home, Women, Nation, Service, Tragedy)
"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
- Samuel Smiles
(Related: Men, Wisdom, Perseverance, Attention, Observation, Old, Possession, Road, Understanding)
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
- Adam Smith
(Related: Ambiguity, Road, Skepticism)
"A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Man, Mercy, Road, Stars)
"Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Life, Man, Road)
"It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end."
- Bessie Smith
(Related: End, Old, Road)
"I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals."
- Gerrit Smith
"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Singing)
"I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me."
- Susan Smith
(Related: Now, Road)
"It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously."
- DeForest Soaries
(Related: Congress, Embarrassment, Leaders, Political leaders, Reform)
"The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves."
- Ralph W. Sockman
(Related: Life)