Commuter Train Quotes

#1. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface.

Ken Kesey

#2. The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.

Hendrik Tennekes

#3. The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.

Joseph O'Neill

#4. Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Terry Eagleton

#5. Then she spotted in the corner, glowing wonderfully, a Wurlitzer jukebox. ' Holy shit!' It was like being on a commuter train through the Bronx and seeing among the piles of crushed cars a pasture with a lone white horse.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#6. I loved her, for she was beauty dressed in a selfless personality and the skin of unconditional love. A voice of truthful melody and eyes holding a vision so large, maybe, just maybe she was born to change the world.

Nikki Rowe

#7. We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.

Cat Osterman

#8. Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you?

Doug Dillon

#9. Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

E.B. White

#10. I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Joseph McCabe

#11. Stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.

Janet Collins

#13. There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.

Robert Battle

#14. Where are we going?"
Rhy's smile widened into a grin. "To Velaris - the City of Starlight.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.

Anne Cox Chambers

#16. I can remember watching large, tentative, individual flakes of snow falling and blowing around aimlessly in the wind generated by the train through the window of the CTA commuter line from Lincoln Park back up to Libertyville, and thinking, 'This is my crude approximation of a human life.

David Foster Wallace

#17. Success depends on our using, and not opposing ...

Thomas Troward