This detour was only supposed to be temporary. I never…

For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be temporary, and…

— Shigeru Ban

“You are every fairy tale that I dreamed of and the forever after that I never dared to hope for.”

— Sydney Landon

“The driver asked me if I would mind another brief detour, this time to a tombstone salesroom across the street from the cemetery. I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was…

— Susane Colasanti

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

— Jason Schwartzman

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

— James Arthur Ray

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better…

— Darren Shan

There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner…

— Esther Hicks

“[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their…

— Tom McCarthy

“Life is not meant to be an interstate highway. It's a winding mountain road with hills and dips, stop signs and school zones. Let…

— Emily March

“When the road is straight do not look for a detour.”

— Helena Kalivoda

“Our roads are most often a tawdry detour we have chosen because the press of pain or the push of greed drove us off…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dead-end roads don't mean you've come to your end, just means you need to take a different detour.”

— Anthony Liccione