Means Of Transportation Quotes:

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

- William Langewiesche

topic: Mean, Stories, World, Means Of Transportation, Military Aviation

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.51, Canongate Books

topic: Life, Philosophy, Mean, Means Of Transportation, Life Of Pi Book

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

- Garrett Hardin

topic: Mean, Environmental, Able, Means Of Transportation, Save Mother Earth

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Travel, Mean, Cooking, Means Of Transportation, Parking

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

- Erykah Badu

topic: Communication, Mean, Thinking, Means Of Communication, Means Of Transportation

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

topic: Mean, Night, Different, Means Of Transportation, Different Place

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

- Lance Armstrong

topic: Heart, Mean, Long, Means Of Transportation

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

- Yann Martel

source: "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

topic: Prayer, Philosophy, Moving, Means Of Transportation, Life Of Pi Book

I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Mean, Research, Revolution, Means Of Transportation

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

- Joseph Stalin

topic: Means Of Transportation

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

- Joseph Stalin

topic: Means Of Transportation

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Mean, Thinking, Accomplishment, Means Of Transportation, Handmaids

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

- Anais Nin

topic: Mean, Levitation, Way, Means Of Transportation