Alternative Routes Quotes

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

I want to emphasize that I am not opposed to pipelines. We already have hundreds of them in our state. I am opposed to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline route because it is directly over the Ogallala Aquifer.

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

Everyone always said you have to make it in the States. But I always thought the best way was to make it in South America first.

I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.

Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

People make a mistake when they think that if you just accumulate a set number of things on your resume, it's going to lead you to a particular place - the pattern of essentially compiling credentials to climb your way up a ladder. That may work, but that's not at all what happened to me.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.