Routes Quotes · Page 5

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

— Al Yankovic

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have…

— Christopher Columbus

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

— Temple Grandin

I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile.…

— S. Robson Walton

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

— Alan Cohen

I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre…

— Arvind Ethan David

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be…

— Marcus Aurelius

Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education…

— Rebecca Mead

But it may be one of our best markets in the long term because when the Japanese society embraces a brand it…

— Reed Hastings

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just…

— Paul Weller

The route for the refugees currently goes through Greece and the Balkans or through Italy; if there were a crisis in north-eastern…

— Paolo Gentiloni

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up…

— Anonymous

Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the…

— Jean Chretien

But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive…

— Thomas Young

The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set…

— Mao Zedong

Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts…

— Charles Jencks

I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I…

— John Hodgman

I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real…

— Lana Del Rey

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when…

— Nelson Goodman

Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe…

— John Irving

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen…

— Peter James

There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the…

— Rush Limbaugh

All I can tell you is I played with Johnny Mitchell. Johnny Mitchell was one of the greatest athletic talents I ever…

— Boomer Esiason

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

— Sun Tzu

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times…

— Gloria Gaither

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought…

— Allen W. Wood

Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

— John Bachar

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an…

— Anna Paskevska

The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy…

— Ilan Ramon

There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I…

— George Hamilton

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally, and if something blocks your route, find another. Never…

— Laurie Notaro

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

— Guy Claxton

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

— Donald Miller

Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I'm all…

— Darnell Dockett

Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which…

— Serge Schmemann

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know…

— Nia Vardalos

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do…

— Jamie Bell