(596 quotes found)
“The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.”
James Agee
“It has to do with being a committed follower of Christ. I feel as though I am in transition from admirer to disciple.”
Jim Cole
“I'm not doing anything special. I'm just getting easy baskets in transition.”
Joakim Noah
“[This year they're calling it] That's Entertainment! Celebrating Career Transition for Dancers' 20th Anniversary Jubilee, ... no longer an option.”
City Center
“In Southern California, there's that feeling of people in transit. I grew up in Southern California, so whenever I ran across a world where your relatives stayed, and they lived a few miles away, and you have the roots that are really strong in your community, that always felt like a wonderful romantic notion. And this [movie] was about discovering this whole root system that you didn't realize you had.”
Cameron Crowe
“I'm going to make my transition to weatherman soon,”
Lewis Black
“The plan is to transition to the Intel processor by the end of this calendar year from today's IBM G5 2.3 GHz processor PowerPC processor. It's the best way to improve performance.”
Alex Grossman
“We were really concerned with their transition. We knew they liked to kick it up to (Amber) Witt and let her go. We did a great job of following the game plan.”
Andrew Booth
