Quotes of Road - somelinesforyou

“ If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well… ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success. ”

- Louis Binstock

“ If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. ”

- Jay Leno

“ I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta. ”

- Belva Plain

“ There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned. ”

- Harrison Salisbury

“ It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference. ”

- Michael Dell

“ I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty. ”

- Paul Bremer

“ Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ”

- Stephen Baldwin

“ Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ”

- Charles Kuralt

“ What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. ”

- Gregory Corso

“ I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. ”

- Carrie Fisher

“ I just thought the Legacy Highway was more local. From a national standpoint, Katrina was a bigger story. But from a local standpoint, I think Legacy was a bigger story. ”

- Thomas Neil

“ I half expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street and hang out with the Count. ”

- George A. Romero

“ How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! ”

- John Gay

“ The path of light and the path of darkness are thought to be the world's two eternal paths. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crews. ”

- Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

“ 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

“ And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. ”

- John Milton

“ What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. ”

- Proverbs

“ We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life? ”

- Jane Elliott

“ He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. ”

- William Faulkner

“ As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country. ”

- Joe Slovo

“ Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. ”

- William Cobbett
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