Nickel Plate Road

Famous quotes containing the words nickel, plate and/or road:

    Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
    Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

    I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the “mainstream” culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn’t think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.
    Jan Clausen (b. 1943)

    Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
    —J.R.R. (John Ronald Revel)