Route Quotes

The longest way round is the shortest way home

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

Searching and the route we take are more important than making a find.

When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.

Everything depends on which path you take.

what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

You can't sign up for this kind of wrestling in school, so I went the football route first and I was successful at it.

['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Do you know the way to San Hose?

Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.

If I do a circuit, then after three laps I could tell you where all the potholes were.

Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

That’s a detour.