"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

#Ocean Quotes #Ice Cream Quotes #Sea Quotes

“What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.”

Source : "Me, Myself and I". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1989.
“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.”
“I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started watching GoPro videos, the thing that struck me the most was that the sound seemed completely detached from the imagery.”
“When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way â€” keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.”
“The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?”
“Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”
“The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.”
“I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.”

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