Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.
Quotes about detour (15 Quotes)
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.
Signs were not posted to explain the detour. Thousands of vehicles had to make multiple lane merges and no one was there to help the process. Then the detour narrowed to a one-lane road through a business district.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
It's an ugly detour, and an acknowledgement of how challenging of a business model it is to offer music. There are phones that already have an FM tuner in them -- why do I have to pay 7 a month for radio
In a sense, it might have been better if they could have miraculously gotten this film out in the first three months. Things have taken such a detour now with the country divided about the war in Iraq and all the aftermath. A movie about 911 is a little bit more risky now, or a bit more difficult to predict how the audience is going to respond.
In 230 million years, a short detour to Australia and back is a mere blip in history, ... All in all, it is a massive collection. It is one of the biggest fossil hauls in world history, and certainly the biggest in Chinese and Australian history.
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.