Central Station Quotes

#1. I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#2. Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.

Jennifer Connelly

#3. It was some kind of cosmic switching device, routing the traffic of the stars through unimaginable dimensions of space and time. He was passing through a Grand Central Station of the galaxy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.

Barton Gellman

#5. I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Al Yankovic

#6. Chief of the Inner Station,' he answered in a short tone, looking away. 'Much obliged,' I said, laughing. 'And you are the brickmaker of the Central Station. Everyone knows that.' He was silent for a while.

Joseph Conrad

#7. I don't want to be one of many stations you pass through." Paused, "I want to be the central station." He fell silent.

Aleksandr Voinov

#8. I know they call me low-cortical and all, but even so, I got this one corner of my brain that's like Grand Central Station. Stuff that other people can't figure out comes easy to me.

Neal Shusterman

#9. People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.

Alice Schwarzer

#10. A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

David Lee Roth

#11. Chapter 1 Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed

Edith Wharton

#12. There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

Rachel Nichols

#13. So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Walter Salles

#14. I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Jim Rogers

#15. I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

Tom Selleck

#16. WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHEN
Personality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages

Kamil Ali

#17. Commitment is the difference between people who "have potential" and people who have results.

Demond Jackson

#18. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Jorge Luis Borges

#19. I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I'll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text.

Dan Chaon

#20. I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

Aidan Quinn

#21. He let himself into the security office and scanned the wall of surveillance monitors. Parking lot clear. Corridors empty. Cafeteria empty. Heart empty.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#22. The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

Marilu Henner

#23. After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

Dee Dee Myers

#24. Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.

James O. Freedman

#25. While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#26. Life's too short to hold back forgiveness.

Katie Kacvinsky

#27. It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

Anne Waldman

#28. When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

Gary Cherone

#29. Funny, gorgeous, and a genius. What a package. He backed out of the parking space, smiling as he drove away.
I loved that he left crazy off the list.
I loved it even more that he would never think to add it.

Myra McEntire