Top 100 Like A Train Quotes
#1. Once I started I couldn't put it down. It was so addictive ... like a train wreck.
Katie Klein
#2. I do not know if hell is hot or cold, or what sort of place hell may be, but this I surely know, that if there is any hell at all it will be badly lit. And it will taste like a train.
H.G.Wells
#3. There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.
Tahir Shah
#4. There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails.
Charles Bukowski
#5. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come ... like a train ... but with ... elegance.
Patrick Marber
#7. Life is like a train: some are entering it to begin the trip while others are living it because the trip is over
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#8. When our Journey of life is like a Train with Some Stops but Always can reach to a destination which can make ourselves and others happy, then we are on the good way.
Jan Jansen
#9. Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
Jane Smiley
#10. And they all pretend they're Orphans
And their memory's like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you can't remember
Tell the things you can't forget that
History puts a saint in every dream
Tom Waits
#11. It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#12. She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P.G. Wodehouse
#13. Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.
Pablo Neruda
#15. 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
#16. It was so addictive ... like a train wreck."
"A train wreck," he repeats, disbelieving.
"You know
you don't really want to see blood and destruction and death because you know it'll haunt you forever, but at the same time you can't look away?
Katie Klein
#17. And life isn't like the movies: There's no ominous swell to the sound track, no fatalistic overhead shot, nothing to tell you that this moment is the one your life will turn on; instead it's like a train silently switching tracks, sheering off midjourney into a whole other part of the night.
Paul Murray
#19. Love doesn't always come barreling down on you like a train engine. Sometimes it sneaks up on you like spring overtaking winter. The chill winds begin to warm and suddenly the trees have leaves and the flowers are blooming.
Ann H. Gabhart
#20. I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.
Eldridge Cleaver
#21. You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
Philip Larkin
#22. Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like a train!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. Your house sounds like a train at midday,
the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing,
the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew ...
Pablo Neruda
#24. I had a stroke in 1985 ... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."
Hugh Hefner
#25. I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
Billy Corgan
#26. Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Vivien Leigh
#27. He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on an open track. He knew every stop, every junction, every swamp along the way, and knew the exact point at which her conclusion would roll majestically into the station
Flannery O'Connor
#28. Thoughts are like a train, they'll take us somewhere. Protect by filling with the word of God.
Christine Caine
#29. I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#30. Lust is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable; love is like a warrior with no weaknesses, unconquerable.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
Carl Hiaasen
#32. I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
Gabriel Luna
#33. American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
Tom Wolfe
#34. I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train ... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.
Woodrow Wilson
#35. A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.
Carmelo Anthony
#36. 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
#37. I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#38. It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.
Markus Zusak
#39. Life is rather like a long train ride; you may encounter a great many people, but looking out from your own small compartment of self you catch only a glimpse of other people's joy or despair.
Faith Baldwin
#40. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.
Sanober Khan
#41. '300' was a real turning point in my career. Until then, I felt like a steam train that was slowly chugging to the top of a hill. Now I'm over that hill, my career seems to have its own momentum.
Gerard Butler
#42. I always train like a family. Antonio Rodrigo is like my mentor. He helped me a lot. He's always there with me. My coaches and I have made a strategy for this fight.
Rafael Cavalcante
#44. I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.
Dolph Lundgren
#45. Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Chalene Johnson
#46. Bad luck is actually a chance for us to make up some time. We're like runners who train on hills, or at an altitude so they can beat the runners who expected the course would be flat.
Ryan Holiday
#47. The four of us sit together in the sea of blue, the train twisting and turning like a river running, and I know it's hard to fight against a current as strong as the Society.
Ally Condie
#49. Drivin' the green train I'm all like, Choo-choo! Choo-choo! Can't catch me! - Oh, poop! A
Rick Riordan
#50. I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
Joe Manganiello
#51. Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.
Cassandra Clare
#52. A white linen tablecloth
edged with pink roses --
Mama's favorite pattern --
flowed like a bride's train
from sidewalk to curb to gutter.
Papa stared at black boot marks
crossing it like sins.
Paul B. Janeczko
#53. Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.
Christopher Isherwood
#54. I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were like, 'I can't do that. It sounds gross.' Once you train your hair, it will do whatever you want it to do. And on day seven when it's too oily, you just put it in a ponytail.
Joyce Giraud
#55. I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.
Jane Birkin
#56. 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
#57. I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!
Julie Burchill
#58. What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars - he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off - but on a global scale!
Ernest Cline
#59. If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.
Pep Guardiola
#60. It's like watching a train wreck, this conversation.
Cynthia Hand
#61. Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Adam McKay
#62. Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.
Gordon Brown
#63. Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.
Benjamin Carson
#64. But the transition from the New York Times to the Ashton Clarion was like jumping off a speeding train into a wall of half-set Jell-O.
Frank E. Peretti
#65. The politeness was unbearable. They avoided touching each other, careful as strangers on a train ... A family can go on for years without the love that once bound it together, like a lovely old wall that stays standing long after rain has crumbled the mortar.
Kathleen Winter
#66. I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.
Temple Grandin
#67. Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.
Tony Danza
#68. All men would still really like to own a train set.
Rita Rudner
#69. You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.
Stephen King
#70. I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.
Misty Copeland
#71. I looked up at this train car full of strangers, and my heart soared. In New Hampshire, I'd always felt like a goat among sheep; until I got to New York it had never occurred to me that there could be a place filled with other goats.
Sarah Silverman
#72. Train Like an Athlete, Eat Like a Bodybuilder.
Elliott Hulse
#73. Jean sat at the end of the bar, watching Jerry Springer as she drew deeply on a long cigarette. The woman smoked like a freight train, especially while watching talk shows.
Rose Wynters
#74. I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.
Charlaine Harris
#75. Ronnie offered, "I don't want my life to pass me by."
Filling Ronnie's glass again, Sissy promised, "It won't."
"It's already started. It's whizzing by like a freight train.
Shelly Laurenston
#76. Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?
Jimmy Fallon
#77. There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night.
Robert Charles Wilson
#78. I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
Valentino Garavani
#79. When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.
Ryu Murakami
#80. This is your first marathon. Possibly, you'll want it to be your last. Focus on future races draws energy from the one in front of you. Like the mileage that comprises them, train for marathons one at a time.
Gina Greenlee
#81. He sighed. Look, love, I know I seem like a tactical genius, but really, I'm just a magician who occasionally kills a bunny or drives a train.
Delilah S. Dawson
#82. People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.
Angelina Jolie
#83. The authors he has himself discovered are his own exclusive territory, like the saloon compartment of a special train.
Rabindranath Tagore
#84. I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.
Wladimir Klitschko
#85. I guess my favorite way to travel is in a car, especially if you get to go some place cool. The bullet train in Japan is cool; but overall, driving through certain areas, like the desert in the United States, or the Black Forest in Germany, you feel the nature unfolding.
Steve Kimock
#86. No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.
Judah Friedlander
#87. If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Rouen shone in dark sunlight and a storm swept it away from my eyes and churned up the broad river with waves which pounced up like cats as our train drew out of the arches of the bridge.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#89. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#90. Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.
Andrew Breitbart
#91. The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle - it is in you.
Meindert DeJong
#92. Put me on a train with no windows where nighttime lasts forever and a speed-mad engineer with a mechanical heart high balls a coal-black engine through time tunnels like a bullet leaving a gun where the speed of darkness is faster than the speed of light.
D.B. Cox
#93. The train gives off an earsplitting insect hum. It seems like you're watching something physically impossible, like a person lifting a house, or hearing a joke so funny the laughter threatens to rip you apart, and then, with a puff of air, it's over. When
Matthew Amster-Burton
#94. Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.
Tracy Anderson
#95. It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
Fannie Flagg
#96. Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress.
Ilona Andrews
#97. About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag on the A train,..
Peter Carey
#98. Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
Khaled Hosseini
#100. Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say "Come back" and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup.
Eknath Easwaran
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