Top 100 Quotes About A Train
#1. A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime.
Chiaki Kuriyama
#2. The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
Anthony Bourdain
#3. I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train.
David Bowie
#4. God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God is not out of breath because he has blown one tempest and swallowed a Navy: Our God has not burnt out his eyes because he has looked upon a Train of Powder."
Errol Morris
#5. 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
#6. I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.
Taylor Swift
#7. What's the difference between a teacher and a train? A teacher says, "Spit out that gum!" and a train says, "Choo choo choo!
Various
#8. The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. It makes me sad but gives hope as well. It connects me to my family, which I abandoned many years ago. I fled away from my family and home by a train only.
Ravi Ranjan Goswami
#9. What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.
Teju Cole
#10. Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge
John E. Wordslinger
#11. I took a train to Liverpool. they were having a festival when I arrived. Citizens had taken time off from their busy activities to add crisp packets, empty cigarette boxes and carrier-bags to the other wise bland and neglected landscape.
Bill Bryson
#12. Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure.
Tennessee Williams
#13. The best kinds of families try to stop a train wreck - but if they can't, they still show up to give first aid to the walking wounded.
Emma Chase
#14. What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.
Tom T. Hall
#17. 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
#18. I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.
Jayde Scott
#19. How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?
Jackie Kay
#20. Besides, Prague is famous for its many churches with gold-leaf covered domes. In the sunshine, Prague is golden. I fell in love for ever. At the end of the five day stay, the entire group boarded a train for Paris. Although my parents knew the time of my arrival, they could not travel on the
Pearl Fichman
#21. Since the beginning of the year, she was on a train wreck of emotions crashing through every town of bad anxiety a person could feel and none of the stops had ever reached Happy Ville.
Aneta Krpekyan
#22. The problem with movies is that you see from the first day - you're on a train, and if the movie is not going in the right direction you know it right away. Sometimes, you can't get off the train, and the whole experience is painful.
Carole Bouquet
#23. There is no timetable for grief," said Bronwen Morgan. "Grief isn't a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief's time is beyond time, and time itself ... isn't very important.
Susan Howatch
#24. There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Paul Simon
#25. To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
Nancy Travis
#26. If you were green tea, I'd be your tea cup. If you were dark chocolate, I'd be the paper that wraps you up. If you were a train, I'd be your tracks
If you were a brain, I'd be the heart attached.
Coco J. Ginger
#27. Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#28. I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
Darren Star
#29. Life is 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, and each shows only what lies in it's focus. To find oneself trapped in any one bead, no matter what it's hue, can be deadly.
Maggie Nelson
#30. The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
George Lucas
#31. Rational of whatever is happening all around came together in a train of light which, when it traverse in return, is the pervasive expression of one's own mind
NGR
#32. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry
Bob Dylan
#34. That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me.'"
I hopped off the wall and stood next to him. "Anytime."
He just looked at me.
"I've never killed a train before. It might be fun to try.
Ilona Andrews
#35. If our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment.
Edward O. Wilson
#36. Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.
Joseph Fort Newton
#37. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy
#38. He was right to insist. If they put her on a train,
Laura Moriarty
#39. A man travelling on a train - like you or I - to
Scotland, had two or two bad eggs in his pocket -
and you know - no one would sit by him.
John Lennon
#40. Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Darynda Jones
#41. Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Edward Young
#42. Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.
Christopher Buckley
#44. Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.
Duke Ellington
#45. Then I'll come,' said Tessa, 'I've never been on a train.' Will threw up his hands.
'That's it? You're coming because you've never been on a train before?'
'Yes.
Cassandra Clare
#46. It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?
Bernhard Schlink
#47. Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.
Haruki Murakami
#48. Life is completely different when you live near a railway station. It feels as if you're just passing through. Everything is temporary. One day or another, you'll hop on a train.
Patrick Modiano
#49. Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.
David Douglas Duncan
#50. In a train ... smash. In his arm her last ... breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?
Janet Fitch
#51. Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
Yasmina Khadra
#52. Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.
Argus Hamilton
#53. I buried my face in my hands. This wasn't a train wreck. It was a nuclear disaster.
K.S. Ruff
#54. I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
Odette Annable
#55. Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
Paul Theroux
#56. I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.
Johnny Olson
#57. Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.
Honor Tracy
#58. Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
Edward Hopper
#59. I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.
Eldridge Cleaver
#60. Oh, you're such a hopeless case, Cassie. Such a train wreck.
Rick Yancey
#61. 'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
Chris Van Allsburg
#62. Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
Anthony Foxx
#63. The subject matter of daydreams has been determined by modern science to vary widely, ranging from having sex with a stranger on a train to having sex with a coworker to having sex with Mila Kunis.
Colin Nissan
#64. Do you think you're a train wreck?"
"That would mean I was on the tracks to start with.
Maggie Stiefvater
#65. I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.
Cassandra Clare
#66. As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#67. I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.
Anton Chekhov
#68. Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch.
Andrea Gibson
#69. Rachel paused. "Do I need to get your mom? Did you just find out you're pregnant, and you don't know the baby daddy?" "No! And you really need to lay off Sixteen and Pregnant." "It's a train wreck. You wanna look away, but you just can't," Rachel said in defense of her reality show obsession.
Calia Read
#70. I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.
Walt Disney
#72. I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.
Kevin McCloud
#73. You get on a train, you disappear.
You write your name on the window, you disappear.
There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.
Louise Gluck
#74. You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.
Daniel Nayeri
#75. After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
Karen Armstrong
#76. 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
#77. Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.
Corrine Brown
#78. I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
Constance Baker Motley
#79. If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.
Jonny Greenwood
#80. School is the same as anything else. You do it because you're told to do it when you're little enough to listen. You continue because someone told you it was important. It's like you're a train in a tunnel. Graduation is the light at the end.
A.S. King
#82. Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.
Melissa McCarthy
#83. Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.
Veronica Roth
#84. If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead ... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something ... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.
Banksy
#85. You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
Monte Irvin
#86. If ka is a train - and it is, a vast, hurtling mono, maybe sane, maybe not - then this nasty little lycanthrope is its most vulnerable hostage, not tied to the tracks like little Nell but strapped to the thing's very headlight.
Stephen King
#87. A train journey is travel; everything else - planes especially - is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands. - GRB
Paul Theroux
#88. Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
Max Bill
#89. Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.
Chantal Kreviazuk
#90. Drive down any road,
take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life behind,
die and be born again~
wherever you arrive
they'll be there first,
glossy and rowdy
and indistinguishable.
The deep muscle of the world.
Mary Oliver
#91. Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney
#92. A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
Billy Strayhorn
#93. Never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk near a train, and never, under any circumstances, cut off your air supply while masturbating.
David Sedaris
#94. Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
George Herbert
#95. Not quite a room, Jeevan thought now, looking around the stage. It was too transitory, all those doorways and dark spaces between wings, the missing ceiling. It was more like a terminal, he thought, a train station or an airport, everyone passing quickly through.
Emily St. John Mandel
#96. Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
Oscar Wilde
#97. The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.
Sal Albanese
#98. Eat your breakfast. We have a train to board." - Daniel
"I'm not a child, Captain." - Julianna
"Yes. I am very much aware of that fact, thank you." - Daniel
Andrea Boeshaar
#100. My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.
Chuck Palahniuk
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