Bless The Road Quotes & Sayings

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network. — Ze Frank

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. — Henrik Ibsen

A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation. — Sam Yagan

He hears everything as music,' said his father, Moses Whitaker. 'The fax machine sounds like an A. The copy machine is a B flat. The jackhammers are making the drum beats that he likes.' When the subway rumbles, Matthew taps his cane on the ground to re-create the noise. He hums along with the city - the fast cars and fast talkers. When asked to describe New York, he stands and pivots a full 360 degrees, pointing his fingers in front of him. 'New York is a circle of sounds,' he says. 'There is music everywhere. Everybody has a smile on their face. It's musical, it's dark and so beautiful. — David Byrne

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp. — James H. Billington

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. — John Tillotson

(In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.) — Ismail Kadare

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race. — Henry Iba