Indirect Path Quotes

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

We know there is no progress in a straight line.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

The next way home's the farthest way about.