Straight Road

Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or road:

    “ ...He spoke to his wife in the door, ‘Let me see,
    Mame, we don’t know any good berrying place?’
    It was all he could do to keep a straight face.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]
    M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)