Quotes About Steam Trains

#1. The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

M.C. Beaton

#2. The path from Hythe leads, for a little while, along the line of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway, whose 15in-gauge steam trains run throughout the year from Hythe to Dungeness.

David Hewson

#3. It is an extraordinary fact but a true one that there are thousands of men in Britain who will never need Viagra as long as steam trains are in operation.

Bill Bryson

#4. I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

Mark Haddon

#5. I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?

Mitt Romney

#6. The Ancient Greeks? If they had steam engines, why didn't they have trains?'
. . .
'They were philosophers; they put two and two together and got a goldfish.'
(p. 76)

Natasha Pulley

#7. Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Bobby Fischer

#8. What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

Charles Kuralt

#9. I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Edvard Munch

#10. 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

#11. I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms ... I can write anywhere.

Jo Nesbo

#12. I'm sorry," I said, "did you just say elections are about hope?

Noah Hawley

#13. But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in railways, and in the relative speed of the fastest express trains; but I did not understand the principle of the steam engine and had no wish to learn.

L.P. Hartley

#14. Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

James Buchan

#15. Is he?" Dad seemed happy about this. "Oh, yes. I think it's important to him that we all feel like we could be successful, you know? So he's really great

Kiera Cass

#16. The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Zygmunt Bauman

#17. The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

Henry Rollins

#18. I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

Lee Trevino

#19. I have a cold mind and a warm heart, whereas most people have cold, troubled hearts and warm, muggy minds, which they mistake for sincere feelings.

James Tiptree Jr.

#20. Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

Linda Barnes