Highway Quotes

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

The best path through life is the highway.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.