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I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

Quote by Mick Jagger about thinking, things

When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that: the two cars are going in opposite directions, and they will always meet at the bridge.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They...

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Quote by Douglas Adams about univers, mind

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly...

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about life

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no...

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about hunger, people

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol...

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Quote by Kim Basinger about symbol, sex

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced...

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Quote by Aristophanes about friendship

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, ...

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Quote by Michael Chabon about work, love

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Quote by Danny DeVito about chance, work

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

Quote by Danny DeVito about circus, dream, woman, man

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, ...

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Quote by Winston Churchill about victory, survival, fear

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd...

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about olderness, advice, absurd, age, old, end

Yeah, near 8 Mile Road in Detroit, which separates the suburbs from the city. Almost all the blacks are on one side, and almost all the whites are on the other, but all the families nearby are low-income. We lived on the black side.

Quote by Eminem about city, magic

Last year I toured a bit of America. I was on the road...

Last year I toured a bit of America. I was on the road for 7 months, cause I hadn't toured the states in a long time.

Quote by Joe Cocker about time

The excellence of a road consists chiefly in its being protected from the reigning winds, and the swell of the sea; in having a good anchoring-ground, and being at a competent distance from the shore.

Quote by William Falconer about being, good, good luck

You're encouraged to buy a car. They give you a road tax and places to park, and you must put a coin in. If you stay there any length of time, you're not allowed to feed the meter. If you can't get back to your car, they put a clamp on the car.

Quote by Sean Connery about commerce, time

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a...

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about society, war

I knew, in 1965, that I was on the wrong road for the...

I knew, in 1965, that I was on the wrong road for the kind of person I was. I had to change things.

Quote by Peter Fonda about bad, change, people, things

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