Top 1200 Silk Road Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch.

I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

I miss being out on the road.

Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

No road is long with good company.

I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.

No wide road leads to God.

Food on the road can be a hit-or-miss deal.

At the end of every road you meet yourself.

Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it is. But as I journey into the night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs.

The road to success is through commitment.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

I'm always working on new music or I'm on the road.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

You must choose a road for yourself.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

If you don't have a goal, any road will do.

Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.

I'm on the road almost eight months of the year.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re own.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

For a great willpower, no road has length!

I never became a road comic.

My advice is to stop trying to "network" in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you'll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendship later down the road. You won't know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2-3 years later down the road.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere.

I always try to do middle-of-the-road cinema.

Being on the road is kind of lonely.

Keep Right on to the End of the Road

Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.

What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

Follow the yellow brick road.

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The colour of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with a length of silk. Boggs reprogramming the Holo. Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended, like a bird about to take flight. On and on. We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their death count.

A road trip in Cuba is probably top of my list.

A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.

Humour is the shortest road from one person to another.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

Think I'll roll another number for the road

White in the moon the long road lies.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

I didn't really have a road map ever.

See your road through.

I have my DS with me all the time on the road.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

I know something better is on the road for me.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the cost of silk is too expensive. And they won't lower their quality levels. So I can spend $2 million on a record and give it out in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it's just impossible to hand-make that many.

The road to success is always under construction.

The road less traveled will not be smooth

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

The road to freedom is a beautiful system

The road to national rebirth is a hard one, but there is no other.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.