Expressway Quotes

#1. Sometimes the road to wellness isnt a well-marked expressway.

Scott Jurek

#2. Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton says. I didn't think they could make Brooklyn uglier. I underestimated them.

J.R. Moehringer

#3. Turning a negative into a positive is an expressway to success.

Robert Evans

#4. SMILE - Sustain Moderation In Life's Expressway

Kamil Ali

#5. Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.

Phyllis Diller

#6. Seen from the expressway at quarter to five in the morning, Boston seems a city of the dead brooding over some tragedy in its past - a plague, perhaps, or a curse.

Stephen King

#7. My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

Kenneth Langone

#8. I was used to driving my sun chariot across the sky, where every lane was the fast lane. I was not used to the Long Island Expressway. Believe me, even at midday in the middle of January, there is nothing express about your expressways.

Rick Riordan

#9. As they drove back to Greenpoint from Long Island, Drake looked at the other drivers on the Long Island Expressway and realized that anyone could be anyone's father, that anyone could love anyone under certain circumstances, and that life is a museum of small accidents.

Simon Van Booy

#10. Eight and a half miles can be covered in minutes in a car on an expressway, but what does a man see? What he gains in time he loses in benefit to his body and mInd.

Richard Proenneke

#11. ...when you hit the expressway to Declinistan there are few exit ramps. That America's animating principles should require a defense at all is a melancholy reflection on how far we've already gone. Live free--or die from a thousand soothing caresses of nanny-state sirens.

Mark Steyn

#12. It is a fake, but a good fake. Turkey is the land of the masterful fake. But it is far far from that hateful little eighth-floor apartment huddling between the roar of the expressway and the blare of the mosque.

Ian McDonald

#13. If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

Shashi Tharoor

#14. So how are you supposed to learn how to drive with this guy yapping at you? My brothers were the ones who got to practice. So when you have to get on the expressway, you're afraid. That's what I think. That's why I take back routes on two-lane highways.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

Kenneth Langone

#16. Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.

Dennis Kimbro

#17. The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

Joanna Baillie

#18. Live it like its gospel , quote it like its scripture.

Mike Cooley

#19. It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness.

Matthew Kelly

#20. The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

Russell Baker

#21. Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Charles Krauthammer

#22. I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#23. Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name.

Ravi Howard

#24. The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

Leon Panetta

#25. The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he IS a fallen man in a fallen world.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

Deb Caletti

#27. So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

Herbert Hoover

#28. Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.

Sally Pearson

#29. Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#30. I bet him a million dollars when I was eight, that I would marry you.

Rachel Van Dyken