Top 100 Quotes About The Highway
#1. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
#2. I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me. - White Trash Beautiful
Teresa Mummert
#3. By then Geoffrey's threadbare soul had been left far behind standing by the side of the highway. Did he feel anything anymore? Warm? Cold? Watching after them, mouth open as if to call out; did he wish at the last moment to have done life differently?
B.P. Gregory
#4. There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted in the middle. Balance is appropriate, not too tight, not too loose, the Middle Way as we call it in Buddhist dharma teachings.
Surya Das
#5. The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out of the mist it disappeared again, as if the world created itself and was blotted out again.
Janet Fitch
#6. The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
Jerry N. Uelsmann
#7. Men are the scourge of the universe. I say we line them all up along the highway and then mow them down with big trucks. No, wait! Steamrollers! Yeah, let's steamroll them all until they're nothing more than slimy wet spots on the road! (Chrissy)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. I remember, as a kid, riding in the back of my dad's old Saab 95 in Denmark. We were on the highway, and suddenly this silver Maserati Bora came upon us, then passed. At the time, to me, this car looked like a spaceship.
Henrik Fisker
#10. Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
Bryant McGill
#11. My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe
#12. She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys.
Max Allan Collins
#13. When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain ...
Leonard Cohen
#14. Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
Edward Abbey
#15. I fell asleep to the highway's monotonous lullaby
John Green
#16. I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.
Bob Dole
#17. I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.
Lucinda Williams
#18. Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
Rick Pitino
#19. The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
Bruce Springsteen
#20. Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
Hunter S. Thompson
#21. I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Henry Rollins
#22. No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?
Ken Kesey
#23. Bill could smell Its breath and it was a smell like exploded animals lying on the highway at midnight.
Stephen King
#24. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success ...
John Keats
#26. If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.
Voltaire
#27. Next thing I know I'm hiking that sweet, short skirt up over her sweet round ass, breaking my own rules, gonna screw a brunette, on the highway to Hell.
Karen Marie Moning
#28. I'm not waiting for times to change
I want to live like a free-roaming soul
on the highway of our love.
Neil Young
#29. I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV. Really, I just drove my car right into the guardrail, figured I'd save him some time.
Alonzo Bodden
#30. The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#31. I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.
Chris Rock
#32. FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)
James Patterson
#33. The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life may cost you many pangs, and make every day a battle, yet it is a happy life after all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people - sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
Mick Jagger
#35. Failure is ... the highway to success.
Og Mandino
#36. I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
Robert James Waller
#37. When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.
Donnie Wahlberg
#38. Time slid from under me in drifts like ice skids on the highway, punctuated by sudden sharp flashes where my wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary time:
Donna Tartt
#39. I became hypnotized by my own loneliness, unwilling to stop until my eyes wouldn't stay open anymore, watching the white line of the highway as though it was the last thing that connected me to the earth.
Paul Auster
#40. A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway.
Ian Fleming
#41. Imagine, my brother signed. Imagine if somebody built a bridge right outside our window and we could just walk across the highway and be on the other side.
Jacqueline Woodson
#42. I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.
Surya Das
#43. Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
Mark Wahlberg
#44. Also, Nathan, if you're listening, and I assume you are, I'm the best and only friend you've got. Give her permission to share what she has, or I swear to God I'll have you turning tricks out of a prefab shed on the side of the highway. I'm trying to save humanity here.
James S.A. Corey
#45. They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.
Betty Hill
#46. I like to get that roll and pitch. I really like to take the car out on the highway for a spin.
Ron James
#47. People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.
Anthony Foxx
#48. In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
Adam Smith
#49. American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head
supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
Billy Connolly
#50. Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some point, find we probably could walk there. Others have a road cave in and dump them there.
Helen Slavin
#51. Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.
Dan Heath
#52. Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.
Tamara L. Chilver
#53. Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
Saint John Chrysostom
#54. Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.
Jonathan Richman
#55. We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
Johnny Thunders
#56. The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.
Peter Norvig
#57. If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#58. To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#59. Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.
Bob Dylan
#60. Crime was like litter tossed on the highway: once it was shoved out the window the only ones who cared were the ones close to where it landed.
Rebecca Forster
#61. In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'
Jeb Bush
#62. In my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
Allen Ginsberg
#63. The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.
John McCain
#64. If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.
Jamie Dimon
#65. I have always been looking for the noble qualities in human beings, and I have found them. There are great souls all along the highway of life, and there are great qualities even in the people who seem common and weak to us ordinarily.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#66. There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we with it or not, from now on there will be immense traffic along that highway.
James A. Michener
#67. As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
Gabrielle Union
#68. We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.
Paul Simon
#69. In understandably wishing to increase freedom and liberty, it paradoxically left massive road kill everywhere on the highway to rational heaven.
Ken Wilber
#70. The casino seemed like a good idea at first - right off the highway, filled with drunks and elderly, neither of whom are known for eyesight. But I am feeling crowded and fidgety, aware of the cameras in every corner, the doors that could snap shut.
Gillian Flynn
#71. The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined.
Bryant McGill
#72. If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. Don't go jumping off any rooftops. Don't run into the highway or set yourself on fire. It doesn't work that way. You won't end up where I ended up.
Rick Riordan
#74. By the highway, the Hudson - the library books straining at their delibags, corners poking. Straining my arms, throttling my hands, the numb rewards of literacy.
Joshua Cohen
#75. They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
Malachy McCourt
#76. The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.
Theodore Roethke
#77. And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
Madeleine Albright
#78. Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#79. Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation ... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
Anatole France
#80. He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#81. Left turn in four. Hundred. Feet.
An invisible electronic woman navigates us toward the highway from the distant planet Monotone, where everyone is tranquil and directionally adept,
Sarah Ockler
#82. Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.
Katherine Applegate
#83. Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company." "First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.
John Flanagan
#84. There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.
Jean De La Bruyere
#85. Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization ... The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.
H. Allen Smith
#86. Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
Thomas Carlyle
#87. The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.
John Norquist
#88. We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
Barack Obama
#89. There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
Tahir Shah
#90. You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.
Cyndi Lauper
#91. I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow
down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.
George Deukmejian
#92. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.
Truman Capote
#93. Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway - U.S. 66,
Edward Abbey
#94. While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.
John Engler
#95. It is unacceptable to sit in your room alone and scream at your life, but it is perfectly acceptable (albeit not exactly normal) to do it with a good friend on the highway, hearing your voice rise to the rush of the window wind and then hearing it be taken away, left behind in your wake.
David Levithan
#96. My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
Kangana Ranaut
#97. Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
Napoleon Hill
#98. If carrots are good for my eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?
Richard Jeni
#99. Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.
Charles Phillips
#100. Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.
George W. Bush
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