Top 377 Transport Quotes & Sayings

If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

I like the gizmos that transport people.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

I can't say I'm an expert on public transport.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

I try to use public transport, always.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with Transport Minister Alasdair Darling's reported hatred of cars. They too wanted drivers off the roads and on to public transport. Go to it, Mr Darling, they cried in unison, get rid of all those cars. Except, of course, their own. Other people's cars are traffic. My car is the outward essence of my being. It is my hat, stick and cane. It embodies my freedom as a citizen and my right as a democrat. My car is my soul in flight.

One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised this before, that the South African economy has grown at a rate that has overtaken the capacity of the transport system. And therefore, we have said that it is necessary to expand our capacity in the ports.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart - this, you realize with a gasp of joy, is what movies can do.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

Having a police presence on public transport is vital to ensuring customers are safe.

I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn't much going on around there.

The truth is that development of public transport facilities needs government funding or cheap loans.

When I'm in London I always travel by public transport - I catch the Tube and the Heathrow Express.

Most of the energy consumed is for heating, cooling, and transport. By massively deploying green gas, we could decarbonize all that.

I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport system maximising more environmentally friendly modes of transport such as rail linked more effectively to Europe.

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

Sitting on public transport is an occasionally exasperating experience if you have the temerity to attempt travelling while female.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

The sets of 'Lootera' itself transport you to the 15th century, since everything was designed according to that era.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

I like my music to transport people somewhere.

Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.