Brakeman's Quotes

#1. The actual materials are important ... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

Allen Ginsberg

#2. When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

Adam Lambert

#3. Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

Elbert Hubbard

#4. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can ... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

John Lennon

#6. For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night ... I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet ... I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. When the Lord's angelic brakeman brings my life to a standstill, "and this train ends" I will board the next train and "I'll try again" (lyrics from Tuesday's Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd).

Jonah Books

#8. I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

Larry McMurtry

#9. Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization ... Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility

Bill Moyers

#10. The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

Seth

#11. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky