Viaduct Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It is not believed that a people capable of inventing the genre of "oral painting" could have spawned the viaduct killer, and in any case no ghetto resident is permitted access to any other area of the city. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Peter Straub

#3. Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town ... Polacks would stomp on you ... Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards.

Mike Royko

#4. Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.

Elton John

#6. I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

Chuck Sigars

#7. In one of the strangest types of synesthesia - there are at least three dozen - people see a word and immediately experience a taste on their tongue.

John Medina

#8. The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

J.G. Ballard

#9. Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

Blake Shelton

#10. Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.

Thornton Wilder

#11. Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

Frederick Lenz

#12. He was not going to die. She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust, because Jacin wasn't going to die.

Marissa Meyer

#13. If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

Joyce Meyer

#14. To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Eric Hoffer

#15. We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

Warren Buffett

#16. Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

Cat Stevens

#17. Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Frederick Buechner

#18. Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely ... It is simply the most ordinary place in the world ... It was so shabby and makeshift ... a place where poetry could never occur.

David Malouf

#19. Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

Ashley Wagner