Asphalt Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. — Ilya Ehrenburg
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with… — Charles Lindbergh
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than onâ€¦there… — John Huston
Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his… — James Tabor
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the… — Andrew Nikiforuk
Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair was mussed. He… — Marilyn
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason… — Robert Macfarlane
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or… — Robert Macfarlane
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack,… — Cale Yarborough
At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me, — Jens Voigt
I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's… — Tim Cordes
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 Asphalt Jungle (1950)],… — Diana Dors
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking… — Alan Weisman
The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the… — Charles Reznikoff
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of… — Robert Moses
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow… — Shel Silverstein
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides… — George Carlin
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of… — Dorianne Laux

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