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  • The open road still softly calls... -- Carl Sagan
  • Strong and content I travel the open road. -- Walt Whitman
  • And the open road rolled out in front of us. -- Alexandra Bracken
  • The great home of the soul is the open road. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood -- Carl Sagan
  • Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. -- Lance Armstrong
  • The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man. -- Pico Iyer
  • Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. -- Walt Whitman
  • The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. -- William Least Heat-Moon
  • They say the open road helps you think. About where you've been and where you're going. -- Vin Diesel
  • The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ. -- Max Anders
  • Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? -- Baden Powell de Aquino
  • She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think. -- Dave Eggers
  • There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. -- Dan Chaon
  • You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends. -- Jenny Offill
  • Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road. -- Walt Whitman
  • The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road. -- Emma Caulfield
  • I dont know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe its because when youre headed somewhere, you dont have to be where youve already been. -- Steve Hofstetter
  • But, I like the challenge of, "How can we stretch this out? Where can we go with it?" It's an open road, especially at Netflix. You can take it anywhere you want. -- Jenji Kohan
  • I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper. -- Chuck D
  • Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world. -- Isabelle Eberhardt
  • For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. -- Carl Sagan
  • Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is permanent. -- Jeanette LeBlanc
  • You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily -- Candace Allan
  • I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery. -- J.A. Redmerski
  • There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty little whims. The man you will become is at your mercy. -- Dan Chaon
  • Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. -- Walt Whitman
  • There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act. -- James Salter
  • I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home. -- James Taylor
  • I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email. -- Garrett Hedlund
  • The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed. -- Edward Ruscha
  • Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. -- Jules Renard
  • I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road. -- Neil LaBute
  • I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
  • I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east. -- Burl Ives
  • I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn. -- Roger McGuinn
  • Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent. -- Pope Francis
  • Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open. -- Roger Ebert
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  • But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up. -- Bootsy Collins
  • When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians, in non-Jewish nightclubs and going all over the world - getting out of the shtetl - opened me up to having experiences that other religious men might not have to think or worry about. -- Matisyahu
  • My priority doesn't lie with the whole website and Facebook and such; I'm still walking down the road in a pair of real shoes. You need to just play as much as you can. Get in front of people, as I've always said. It doesn't matter if it's ten people at an open mic or opening a show for someone. Play all the time. -- Steve Forbert
  • It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car. -- Madi Diaz
  • The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. -- Louis Simpson
  • When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • If you don't open up, we're going to lose each other down the road -- Sylvia Day
  • Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed, so you can open one that leads you to the perfect road. -- Katy Perry
  • I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.... -- Little Richard
  • I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched. -- Anna L. Davis
  • Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew. -- Pablo Neruda
  • A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
  • We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us. -- Nelson Mandela
  • The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road. -- Mark Helprin
  • I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading. -- Russell Simmons
  • I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there. -- Rick Moody
  • Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible. -- Bruce Lee
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