Asphalt Quotes

“When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.”
― Brenna Ehrlich, Placid Girl

“The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“The Cottage Diner’s homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Poisoned Apple

“Sweepers in orange suits, sentenced to a life of mopping cigarette butts, pale leaves and dust off Tehran’s asphalt highlands waltz from side to side. The odd rebellious senior citizen turtles their way to the bakery. Yet every morning, the inhabitants of Tehran are hoping that maybe, just maybe, today will be better than the previous day.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish