Road Quotes

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

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.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

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

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.