A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to… — Tim Cordes Copy Share Image
I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The… — Diana Dors Copy Share Image
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the… — John Huston Copy Share Image
At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day… — Jens Voigt Copy Share Image
The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with… — Charles Reznikoff Copy Share Image
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair… — Marilyn Copy Share Image
It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste.… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge… — Gary Soto Copy Share Image