Top 21 Turnpike Quotes
#1. The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points
his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.
Thomas Paine
#2. Think of this as an adventure, Diesel said.
I'm from Jersey. I get my adventure on the Turnpike.
Janet Evanovich
#3. It sounded like the wheel on Wheel of Fortune, do you want to spin or do you want to solve the puzzle? Remember that if you try to solve the puzzle and fail, you will be put out into the snow beside the Connecticut Turnpike and the wolves will eat you.
Stephen King
#4. There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#5. No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous.
Jim Harrison
#6. The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find,
Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.
John Wolcot
#7. In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.
Daniel Woodrell
#8. People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle.
Jimmy Fallon
#9. Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Indiana's early morning dew
High up in the hills of California
Home is just another word for you
Billy Joel
#10. The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, 'T were easier for you To put the water back When floods have slit the hills, And scooped a turnpike for themselves, And blotted out the mills!
Emily Dickinson
#12. It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did.
Richard Lamm
#13. We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
Bruce Springsteen
#15. The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.
David Rumelhart
#16. Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentioned, people's hearts pivoted like Moslems to the east and flopped over. Sooner of later, he believed, at one stage of the journey or another, all roads led to the New Jersey Turnpike.
Kathryn Kramer
#17. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis ...
David Rockefeller
#19. How I snuffed that Tartar air!
how I spurned that turnpike earth!
that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
Herman Melville
#20. Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff
Martin Samuel
#21. Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
Jonathan Evison
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