Transportation Quotes

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

~ Erol Ozan

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

~ Amit Kalantri

Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something.

~ John Hannah

When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

~ Russell Baker

Why are you so angry with your Duckling, harry? Don't you like it when I open my legs wide to you? Cross them over you - the way you like? What will you do when your little Duckling isn't there anymore to touch you with her soft fingertips, Harry, where you like it? First the left nipple and then the right. Your Duckling doesn't want to leave you, Harry.Duckling...I need freedom sometimes, Harry.

~ Timberlake Wertenbaker

A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

~ Erol Ozan

As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights. (1933)[Predicting high-altitude jet aircraft for routine long-distance travel.]

~ Auguste Piccard

As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

~ Hugh Ferriss

It is very good, Wisehammer, it's very well written, but it's too-too-political. It will be considered provocative.You don't want me to say it.Not tonight. We have many people against us.I could tone it down. I could omit 'We left our country for our country's good.'That's the best line.

~ Timberlake Wertenbaker

Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto.

~ Ivan Illich

Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking.

~ Godo Stoyke

Vehicles are one of the best modes of transportation. Relationships are one of the best vehicles of transformation.

~ Kate Mcgahan

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

~ Frederick W. Smith

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

~ William Graham Sumner

The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.

~ Karen Robards

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

~ Ross Lovegrove

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

~ Gaylord Nelson

With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts.

~ Ben Shapiro

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

~ Carlos Ghosn

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

~ Billy Collins

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

~ Fritz Todt

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

~ T. Boone Pickens