Quotes About Locomotives

#1. He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

#3. Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

John Ericsson

#4. I was afraid that I had made a profound, irrevocable mistake, and that, as in a fantastic tale, if I did not find something firm and magical to grab a hold of right that moment we would both be swallowed up by a noisome gang of black shapes and evil black birds.

Michael Chabon

#5. Netherton was watching the intricate texture of her bustier, which resembled a microminiature model of some Victorian cast-iron station roof, its countless tiny panes filmed as by the coal smoke of fingerling locomotives, yet flexing as she breathed and spoke.

William Gibson

#6. I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further.

Jack Kerouac

#7. It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

John Harvey Kellogg

#8. Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

#9. The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

O. Winston Link

#10. Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.

Victor Hugo

#11. Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

Walter Benjamin

#12. Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

Alan Huffman

#13. I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.

Kate Atkinson

#14. The galleys ... had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land.

George R R Martin

#15. People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve.
$10,000 A Year, Easy

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

Arthur Honegger

#17. It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

E. E. Cummings

#18. When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you're into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed.

Henry Spencer