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Road Quotes

"I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing."

Jan Hammer, Czech Musician

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"But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road."

Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman

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"I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere."

Nora Roberts, American Author

"When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism."

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French Politician

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

"Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer."

Gregg Allman, American Musician

"Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps."

Ernest Bramah, English Writer

"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."

H. Stanley Judd, American Author

"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."

Stendhal, French Writer

"Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble."

Jimmy Johnson, American Coach

Road, Trouble, Will, Years

"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

"The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back."

Sarah Orne Jewett, American Author

"For me, writing something down was the only road out."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

"I don't go down the road of condemning."

Joel Osteen, American Clergyman

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

Dolly Parton, American Musician

"The roughest road often leads to the top."

Christina Aguilera, American Musician

"The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

"I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road."

Archie Moore, American Athlete

"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own."

Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

Road, Will, Wrong

"I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road."

Marie Windsor, American Actress

"I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hydration."

Matt Cameron, American Musician

"I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

"I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage."

Louise Jameson, British Actress

"Follow the yellow brick road."

E. Y. Harburg, American Musician

"The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted."

Peter McWilliams, American Writer

"The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick."

L. Frank Baum, American Author

"The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos."

Jim Hightower, American Activist

"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

"Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair."

Steven Brust, American Author

"I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop."

Bon Scott, Scottish Musician

"I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me."

Mary Ann Mobley, American Actress

"Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath."

Lewis Thomas, English Scientist

"It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me."

Judith Light, American Actress

"In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another."

William Dampier, English Explorer

Road, Ships, Water

"George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity."

Helmut Kohl, German Politician

"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."

Tommy Shaw, American Musician

"If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable."

Horst Koehler, German Statesman

"There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road."

Gary Cherone, American Musician

"The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group."

Bruce Johnston, American Musician

"There was one year that I was on the road."

Eydie Gorme, American Musician

"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."

Russell Banks, American Author

"Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group."

Bruce Johnston, American Musician

"I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted."

Ian McKellen, English Actor

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should."

Sarah McLachlan, Canadian Musician

"Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road."

Carson Kressley, American Celebrity

"The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful."

Bill Haley, American Musician

"When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it."

Yogi Berra, American Athlete

"The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."

Sterling Holloway, American Actor

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